The Development of Early Phonological Networks: An Analysis of Individual Longitudinal Vocabulary Growth.

ABSTRACT: While much work has emphasized the role of the environment in language learning, research equally reports consistent effects of the child's knowledge, in particular, the words known to individual children, in steering further lexical development. Much of this work is based on cross-sectional data, assuming that the words typically known to children at n months predict the words typically known to children at n+x months. Given acknowledged variability in the number of words known to individual children at different ages, a more conclusive analysis of this issue requires examination of individual differences in the words learned by individual children across development, that is, using longitudinal data. In the current study, using longitudinal vocabulary data from children learning Norwegia

SUBMITTER: Kalinowski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12402682 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature