For parents, providing your children with equal opportunities is a common goal. But when it comes to language development, is it really possible to provide the same input to each child? And, more importantly, does differing input cause differing language abilities between siblings? Blake proposes that the more children there are in a family, the […]
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How do we measure young children’s vocabulary size?
When studying early childhood language, researchers often want to know children’s vocabulary size, but it can be difficult for researchers to get a truly accurate idea of what children words children know. We can’t tell what’s in their usual vocabulary just from interacting with them during a research visit, since we are only around them […]