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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

The Effect of Gender Differences and Word Categories in the Early Vocabulary Acquisition

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2007, v.26 no.2, pp.115-136



Abstract

This study examined the longitudinal effect of infants' gender on early vocabulary acquisition. More than 290 mothers of toddlers completed a vocabulary checklist(Pae, 2002) at 18, 24 , and 30 months. The results showed that always girls had more vocabularies from 18 to 30 months. Secondly, the gender differences became bigger especially from 24 months in predicates, closed class items, and words for times. Finally, for both boys and girls, nouns were the most influencing word category for all the word categories in the next stage. However, vocabularies for routines had a lasting influence until 24 months only for boys. The results suggest that infants' gender might be a very important variable to consider in language research.

keywords
infants, gender, vocabulary acquisition, expressive words, categories of vocabulary, 영아, 성차, 표현어휘, 어휘의 종류, 어휘습득의 시기

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