PMID: 9449003Feb 4, 1998Paper

Talking about self and other: emergence of an internal state lexicon in young children with Down syndrome

Development and Psychopathology
M Beeghly, D Cicchetti

Abstract

The ability to talk about the internal states (IS) of self and other is an age-typical development of early childhood that is thought to reflect young children's emergent self-other understanding. This study examined the emergence of an IS lexicon in a cross-sectional sample of young children with Down syndrome (DS) and a cognitively and demographically comparable group of normally developing (ND) children. Children's IS lexicons were derived from transcripts of their spontaneous utterances during two laboratory contexts: a mother-child emotions picture book task and semistructured play. Children with DS produced significantly fewer IS words and fewer IS word types than their MA-matched counterparts. Controlling for corpus size, children with DS also were less likely to attribute internal states to themselves and were more context bound in their use of IS language. In addition, children with DS also differed from ND children in the semantic content of their IS language, with proportionately higher rates of affective words and lower rates for words about volition ability, and cognition. For both the DS and ND groups, individual differences in IS language production were significantly related to general expressive language skills...Continue Reading

Citations

Dec 13, 2006·Development and Psychopathology·Marjorie Beeghly
Oct 15, 2009·Development and Psychopathology·Pamela M ColeCaroline K Pemberton
Oct 17, 2002·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Robin S ChapmanDoris J Kistler
Aug 3, 2007·Health Communication·A Rani ElwyTheresa M Marteau
Apr 16, 2020·American Journal of Speech-language Pathology·Marie Moore Channell
Feb 13, 2018·Journal of School Psychology·Christopher J LemonsDeborah J Fidler
Jul 27, 2021·Seminars in Speech and Language·Marie Moore Channell, Rebekah Bosley

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