Sources of individual variation in Estonian toddlers’ expressive vocabulary.
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| Title: | Sources of individual variation in Estonian toddlers’ expressive vocabulary. |
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| Authors: | Urm, Ada1 ada.urm@ut.ee, Tulviste, Tiia1 |
| Source: | First Language. Dec2016, Vol. 36 Issue 6, p580-600. 21p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Language acquisition, *MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories, *Education of parents, Social aspects, Vocabulary ability testing, Estonian language |
| Abstract: | The vocabulary size of 16- to 30-month-old children (N = 1235) was assessed using the Estonian adaptation of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences (ECDI-II). The relationship between children’s expressive vocabulary size and different factors of the child and his/her social environment was examined. Results confirm the findings of studies from other languages showing that girls have larger vocabularies than boys, and first-born children are at an advantage compared to later-born children. Children of highly educated parents have bigger vocabularies than children whose parents have a lower educational level; this effect was significant for both maternal and paternal education. It was found that children of less-educated fathers who spend a high amount of time per week (> 40 hours) in daycare have smaller vocabularies than children of fathers with higher educational attainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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