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The lexicon has often been identified as one of the ‘special’ components of language (e.g., Hauser et al. 2002, Pinker and Jackendoff 2005). According to Wilkins (1972: 111–112), ‘while without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed’. Therefore, studying lexical development is of major importance. Better understanding of lexical development is also important because of the role the lexicon plays in linguistic development in general. First, early lexical and grammatical developments are strongly correlated: without a critical mass of words, children may not be able to develop later morphosyntactic competence (see Bates and Goodman 2001, for a review). Second, lexical abilities are correlated to later linguistic abilities such as writing and reading. For example, evidence for the importance of vocabulary size in learning to read has been provided by longitudinal studies showing that syntactic and vocabulary performance in kindergarten predicts reading performance (Catts et al. 1999) and reliably discriminates between poor and normal readers (e.g., Catts et al. 1999, Hagtvet 2003, Share and Leikin 2004). Lexical development can be considered as a good basis for the prediction of future problems in reading and writing. The child’s early productive lexicon is quantitatively and qualitatively different from the adult’s lexicon (Fenson et al. 1993). Between one and three years old, a child’s lexicon is limited, and first words can be semantically and phonologically different from the lexical target. There is a consensus that with age, the child’s lexicon increases and words become more accurate at all levels of linguistic precision. Most studies (for counter-argumentation see Ganger and Brent 2004) agree as well that expressive vocabulary has a nonlinear development, with a slow increase in size

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The interaction of phonetic/phonological development and input characteristics in early lexical development: longitudinal and crosslinguistic perspectives