Gender Differences in Language Development in French Canadian Children between 8 and 30 Months of Age

Autor/inn/en	Bouchard, Caroline; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann; Boudreault, Marie-Claude; Deneault, Joane
Titel	Gender Differences in Language Development in French Canadian Children between 8 and 30 Months of Age
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 30 (2009) 4, S.685-707 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716409990075
Schlagwörter	Females; French Canadians; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Language Acquisition; Young Children; Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Language Processing; Child Language; Child Development; Language Skills; Vocabulary Development; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Frankokanadier; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frühe Kindheit; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Psycholinguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Kindesentwicklung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Wortschatzarbeit; Kanada
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to examine the language of girls and boys between 8 and 30 months of age, using the Quebec French version of The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. The findings from this parental report measure confirm those of earlier research, which showed the linguistic superiority of girls over boys at a young age. More specifically, the results show that girls produce significantly more words than boys; their utterances contain a greater number of grammatical forms, and are more complex syntactically. On the qualitative level, the data illustrate distinctive characteristics associated with gender in the acquisition of the first 100 words. These findings suggest that caution is necessary when assessing young children to interpret performance in light of factors that may contribute to it, including gender. These results are discussed in light of whether separate normative data are warranted for young boys and girls learning Canadian French. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10