Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia;2. Doctoral Program in Hearing, Language and Speech Disorders, Department of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Zagreb, Croatia;3. University of Tartu, Estonia;4. Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland;1. Washington State University, USA;2. Bowdoin College, USA;3. University of Leuven, Belgium;4. University of São Paulo, Brazil;5. Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad de Santiago, Chile;6. Capital Normal University, China;7. University of Helsinki, Finland;8. 0-3 Centre for the at-Risk Infant, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Italy;9. Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy;10. Ewha Womans University, South Korea;11. Ewha Social Science Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea;12. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico;13. Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands;14. Radboud University and Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands;15. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands;p. Babes Bolyai University, Romania;q. Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk State University, Russia;r. University of Murcia, Spain;s. Özyeğin University, Turkey;t. Trakya University, Turkey;u. Tampere University, Finland;1. University of British Columbia, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;2. Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;3. BC Children''s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada;4. Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;5. School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;1. Institute of Health Sciences, Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil;2. Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;3. School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | Cross-linguistic studies can provide information about general and language specific features of language development, but relatively few such studies are available in literature. The main aim of the present study was to investigate, from a cross-linguistic perspective, the roles of the internal factor of gender and external factors of birth order and parental education level on the development of language in 2-year-old children. We examined 351 children growing up in three European language contexts: Croatian (N = 104), Estonian (N = 141) and Finnish (N = 106). Information on lexical skills and word combination ability was collected using the short form of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories and the influence of background factors on these aspects of language development was investigated. No significant differences were found in lexical skills or word combination ability among the three language groups. These aspects of language development varied significantly with gender, but not with external factors. Our findings suggest that internal factors may influence early language development more than external factors. |
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| Keywords: | Early lexical development Syntactic development Gender Birth order Parental education Cross-linguistic study |
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