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The Development of Word Retrieval Abilities in the Second Year and its Relation to Early Vocabulary Growth
Author(s) -
Dapretto Mirella,
Bjork Elizabeth L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.00172
Subject(s) - vocabulary , vocabulary development , psychology , word (group theory) , reading (process) , language development , session (web analytics) , word recognition , linguistics , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , philosophy , world wide web
The present research investigated the development of word retrieval abilities late in the second year when most children display a marked increase in word production. When asked what was hidden in a given box, children with still quite limited productive vocabularies were reliably less likely to produce the labels of the hidden objects than were children with larger productive vocabularies even though (1) all children could name those objects and (2) all children did well when asked to find those same hidden objects. Additionally, the provision of pictorial cues facilitated word retrieval, especially in the early stage of lexical development. Naming errors during a naturalistic book‐reading session peaked in children whose productive vocabularies had recently begun to expand, further suggesting that word retrieval processes undergo significant changes at this time.