Determinants of early lexical acquisition: Effects of word- and child-level factors on Dutch children's acquisition of words

• Published in: Journal of child language Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 1193 - 1213
• Main Authors: VERHAGEN, Josje, VAN STIPHOUT, Mees, BLOM, Elma
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2022
• Subjects: Age; Age Differences; Age effects; Children; Children & youth; Classroom communication; Dutch language; Family Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Native language acquisition; Neighborhoods; Nouns; Phonemes; Phonemics; Phonology; Receptive language; Semantics; Sensory Experience; Speaking; Speech; Verbs; Vocabulary Development; Vocabulary Skills; Word Frequency; Word length; Zipf's Law; Netherlands; toddlers; lexical acquisition; subject-level factors; word-level factors; Dutch

Previous research on the effects of word-level factors on lexical acquisition has shown that frequency and concreteness are most important. Here, we investigate CDI data from 1,030 Dutch children, collected with the short form of the Dutch CDI, to address (i) how word-level factors predict lexical a...