vocabulary development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvocabularyanddevelopment
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vocabulary
noun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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One such variable that may be important for understanding individual differences invocabularydevelopmentis gender.
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One possibility is that they are reporting a secondary increase in the rate of comprehensionvocabularydevelopment.
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Individual differences in earlyvocabularydevelopment: redefining the referential-expressive distinction.
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The role ofvocabularydevelopmentin children's spoken word recognition and segmentation ability.
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The hypothesis was that phonological memory, as indexed by nonword repetition, is causally related tovocabularydevelopment.
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Studies show that hearing stories can result in considerable incidentalvocabularydevelopment, for both first and second language acquisition.
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Both of these results are inconsistent with the large-to-small view of metaphonological development which singles outvocabularydevelopmentas the catalyst of change.
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Despite broad consensus as to the importance of children's earlyvocabularydevelopment, methods of assessing the language abilities of toddlers remain problematic.
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Within this sample, there was no correlation betweenvocabularydevelopmentand socio-economic group.
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This finding needs to be kept in mind when assessing the effect of reading onvocabularydevelopment and when assessing lexical proficiency in general.
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We conclude, as predicted, that the relation between lead-in labels and children'svocabularydevelopment is not necessarily a negative one, as had been previously theorized.
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In the last decade or so, many studies ofvocabularydevelopmentin toddlers have employed the methodology of parental report on a vocabulary checklist.
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Second, both morpheme identification and morphological structure awareness are potentially unique features ofvocabularydevelopment.
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At the same time, improvement in reading reciprocally requires ongoingvocabularydevelopment.
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In turn, the efficient operation of phonological memory may facilitatevocabularydevelopment.
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The transition from learning to read in young children to reading to learn among older children is essential for advancedvocabularydevelopment.
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Reading andvocabularydevelopmentin a second language.
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Invocabularydevelopment, second language learning, and birdsong learning, we don't know what the true story is.
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Composition of vocabulary did not differ in relation to precocity in reaching different stages ofvocabularydevelopment.
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The specificity of environmental influence : socioeconomic status affects earlyvocabularydevelopmentvia maternal speech.
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