Input Subject Diversity Accelerates the Growth of Tense and Agreement: Indirect Benefits From a Parent-Implemented Intervention

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 2619 - 2635
• Main Authors: Hadley, Pamela A., Rispoli, Matthew, Holt, Janet K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Adult Education; Basic Skills; Child Language; Child, Preschool; Children; Children & youth; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Cues; Evidence; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Followup Studies; Grammar; Grammatical agreement; Grammatical subject; Humans; Hypotheses; Intervention; Language; Language Acquisition; Language disorders; Language Impairments; Language Patterns; Language Tests; Linear Models; Linguistic Input; Linguistic research; Linguistics; Longitudinal studies; Male; Morphemes; Native Language; Noun phrases; Nouns; Parent Associations; Parents; Predictor Variables; Preschool Children; Quasiexperimental Design; Resistance (Psychology); Semantics; Sentences; Spontaneous speech; Study and teaching; Syntax; Tense; Toddlers; Toys; Verbs; Vocabulary development; Young Children

Purpose: This follow-up study examined whether a parent intervention that increased the diversity of lexical noun phrase subjects in parent input and accelerated children's sentence diversity (Hadley et al., 2017) had indirect benefits on tense/agreement (T/A) morphemes in parent input and chil...