Simulating the relationship between nonword repetition performance and vocabulary growth in 2-year-olds: evidence from the language 0-5 project

Rowland, CF, Bidgood, A, Jones, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3867-9947, Jessop, A, Stinson, P, Pine, JM, Durrant, S and Peter, MS, 2024. Simulating the relationship between nonword repetition performance and vocabulary growth in 2-year-olds: evidence from the language 0-5 project. Language Learning. ISSN 0023-8333

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Abstract

A strong predictor of children’s language is performance on non-word rep-etition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Somesuggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affectslanguage growth. Others argue that children’s knowledge of language/language expe-rience affects NWR performance. A complicating factor is that most studies focus onschool-aged children, who have already mastered key language skills. Here, we presenta new NWR task for English-learning 2-year-olds, use it to assess the effect of NWRperformance on concurrent and later vocabulary development, and compare the chil-dren’s performance with that of an experience-based computational model (CLASSIC).The new NWR task produced reliable results; replicating wordlikeness effects, word-length effects, and the relationship with concurrent and later language ability we seein older children. The model also simulated all effects, suggesting that the relationshipbetween vocabulary and NWR performance can be explained by language experience-/knowledge-based theories.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Language Learning
Creators:	Rowland, C.F., Bidgood, A., Jones, G., Jessop, A., Stinson, P., Pine, J.M., Durrant, S. and Peter, M.S.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	10 September 2024
ISSN:	0023-8333
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/lang.12671 DOI 2213177 Other
Rights:	© 2024 The Author(s). Language Learning published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Language Learning Research Club, University of Michigan. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	13 Sep 2024 09:01
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 09:01
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52207

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