Language development and assessment in the preschool period

G Conti-Ramsden, K Durkin - Neuropsychology review, 2012 - Springer
Most young children make significant progress in learning language during the first 4 years
of life. Delays or differences in patterns of language acquisition are sensitive indicators of …

Associations between screen use and child language skills: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Madigan, BA McArthur, C Anhorn, R Eirich… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is considerable public and scientific debate as to whether screen use
helps or hinders early child development, particularly the development of language skills …

Gender differences in early stages of language development. Some evidence and possible explanations

P Rinaldi, P Pasqualetti, V Volterra… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is a common feeling that girls speak earlier than boys; however, whether or not there are
gender differences in early language acquisition remains controversial. The present paper …

Wordbank: An open repository for developmental vocabulary data

MC Frank, M Braginsky, D Yurovsky… - Journal of child …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a widely used
family of parent-report instruments for easy and inexpensive data-gathering about early …

Sex and gender differences in autism spectrum disorder: summarizing evidence gaps and identifying emerging areas of priority

AK Halladay, S Bishop, JN Constantino, AM Daniels… - Molecular autism, 2015 - Springer
One of the most consistent findings in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research is a higher
rate of ASD diagnosis in males than females. Despite this, remarkably little research has …

Do girls have all the fun? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom

JM Dewaele, PD MacIntyre, C Boudreau… - Theory and practice of …, 2016 - ceeol.com
The present study focuses on gender differences in Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) among 1736 FL learners (1287 females, 449 …

Early productive vocabulary predicts academic achievement 10 years later

D Bleses, G Makransky, PS Dale, A Højen… - Applied …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We use a longitudinal design to examine associations for a diverse sample of 2,120 Danish
16-to 30-month-old children between early expressive vocabulary and later reading and …

Early sex differences are not autism-specific: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) study

DS Messinger, GS Young, SJ Webb, S Ozonoff… - Molecular autism, 2015 - Springer
Background The increased male prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be
mirrored by the early emergence of sex differences in ASD symptoms and cognitive …

Boy-girl differences in parental time investments: Evidence from three countries

M Baker, K Milligan - Journal of Human capital, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study differences in parental time investments in preschool girls and boys in Canada, the
United Kingdom, and the United States. We find that investments in teaching activities like …

[BOOK][B] Subject pronoun expression in Spanish: A cross-dialectal perspective

AM Carvalho, R Orozco, NL Shin - 2015 - books.google.com
Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the
expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading …