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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 203-222Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01692.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD042235-05, R01 HD042235, HD42235] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC008838, DC008838, R01 DC008838-04] Funding Source: Medline
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Using online measures of familiar word recognition in the looking-while-listening procedure, this prospective longitudinal study revealed robust links between processing efficiency and vocabulary growth from 18 to 30 months in children classified as typically developing (n = 46) and as late talkers (n = 36) at 18 months. Those late talkers who were more efficient in word recognition at 18 months were also more likely to bloom, showing more accelerated vocabulary growth over the following year, compared with late talkers less efficient in early speech processing. Such findings support the emerging view that early differences in processing efficiency evident in infancy have cascading consequences for later learning and may be continuous with individual differences in language proficiency observed in older children and adults.
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