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Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2000

ANTONIA HAMILTON ,
KIM PLUNKETT  and
GRAHAM SCHAFER
ANTONIA HAMILTON
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
KIM PLUNKETT
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
GRAHAM SCHAFER
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Abstract

Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) were collected from 669 British children aged between 1;0 and 2;1. Comprehension and production scores in each age group are calculated. This provides norming data for the British infant population. The influence of socio-economic group on vocabulary scores is considered and shown not to have a significant effect. The data from British infants is compared to data from American infants (Fenson, Dale, Reznick, Bates, Thal & Pethick, 1994). It is found that British infants have lower scores on both comprehension and production than American infants of the same age.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , October 2000 , pp. 689 - 705
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council.