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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

Early lexical development of Korean infants: 8~17 Months

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2004, v.23 no.1, pp.77-99
You-Kyung Chang (Hansol Educational Research Center)

Abstract

The first stage of lexical development was examined with 563 Korean infants between 8 and 17 months of age. The results show that infants understood 3 times more words than they produced and production reached a 50-word milestone at around 17 months. Also girls produced more words than boys but there was no difference in comprehension. Finally, verbs occupy only 4% of total production vocabulary, whereas nominals(broadly defined) or nouns (narrowly defined) accounted for 71% or 27% of total production vocabulary. The results were compared with English- and Italian-speaking infants‘ data in the literature and revealed more similarities than differences in the composition of early productive vocabularies among different languages.

keywords
lexical development, expressive words, receptive words, nouns, verbs, 8~17 months
Submission Date
2004-04-15
Revised Date
2004-06-03
Accepted Date
2004-06-10

Korean Journal of Psychology: General