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Book language and its implications for children’s language, literacy, and development
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The onset of literacy marks a significant change in children’s development. Written language is more complex than everyday conversation, and even books targeted at preschoolers contain more varied words and more complex syntax than child-directed speech does. We review the nature and content of children’s book language, focusing on recent large-scale corpus analyses that systematically compared written and spoken language. We argue that exposure to book language provides opportunities for lea...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/09637214221103264
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+ British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship
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Funding agency for:
Hsiao, Y
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PF2/180013
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Current Directions in Psychological Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 375-380
- Publication date:
- 2022-07-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-05-10
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1467-8721
- ISSN:
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0963-7214
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English
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1258886
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pubs:1258886
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2022-05-12
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- Nation et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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- A correction to this article is available online from SAGE Publications at: https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221119448
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