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Jump Start Vocabulary: Teaching Shape Bias to Increase Expressive Vocabulary

Niese, Hannah L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1489924354210921

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2017, Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, Communication Disorders.
Shape bias is a lexical principle that suggests shape is the primary feature by which concrete noun labels apply to other objects. It helps children generalize the labels of newly encountered words to other referents. Shape bias typically develops around two-years of age and has been linked with increases in expressive vocabulary. Smith, Jones, Landau, Gershkoff-Stowe, and Samualson (2002), for example, found significant increases in 17-month-olds’ noun vocabularies following an intervention that taught shape bias. The present study applied the same intervention to children between the ages of 20 and 33 months with low expressive vocabularies. The six participants in the intervention group and one participant from the control group were exposed to novel objects, associated nonsense spoken labels, and objects that did and did not match their shape. Pre- and post-treatment expressive vocabularies were measured through the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. The children in the intervention group increased their expressive vocabularies by 18 to 62 words, with the majority of increases being nouns. These results suggest that vocabulary can be improved by teaching this lexical principle, as opposed to targeting specific words.
Tim Brackenbury, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Advisor)
Virginia Dubasik, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Committee Member)
Lynne Hewitt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Committee Member)
30 p.
Speech Therapy
Late talkers; late language emergence; expressive vocabulary intervention

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  • Niese, H. L. (2017). Jump Start Vocabulary: Teaching Shape Bias to Increase Expressive Vocabulary [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1489924354210921

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Niese, Hannah. Jump Start Vocabulary: Teaching Shape Bias to Increase Expressive Vocabulary. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1489924354210921.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Niese, Hannah. "Jump Start Vocabulary: Teaching Shape Bias to Increase Expressive Vocabulary." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1489924354210921

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