Joy Geren
Harvard University
6 Papers
47 Citations
Joy Geren is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language development & Vocabulary. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Starting Over: International Adoption as a Natural Experiment in Language Development
Jesse Snedeker,Joy Geren,Carissa L. Shafto +2 more
- 01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Examining the acquisition of English in internationally adopted preschoolers found that early on, children showed the same developmental patterns in language production as monolingual infants, but at later stages had more diverse vocabularies and produced longer utterances with more grammatical morphemes.
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Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: a longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children.
TL;DR: It is suggested that cognitive development plays little role in the shift from referential terms to predicates but may constrain children's ability to learn some abstract words.
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Starting over: A preliminary study of early lexical and syntactic development in internationally adopted preschoolers
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that parental reports provide valid information during the first year after adoption and could be useful in identifying preschool children in need of further assessment, and the rapid lexical and syntactic growth of these children suggests that many of them may eventually catch up with their native-born peers.
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Effects of Maternal Input on Language in the Absence of Genetic Confounds: Vocabulary Development in Internationally Adopted Children
Carissa L. Shafto,Joy Geren,Jesse Snedeker +2 more
- 01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: English vocabulary growth in preschool-aged children and infants adopted from China and Eastern Europe and comparing it to speech produced by their adoptive mothers was correlated with maternal input features, suggesting input effects on language outcomes persist even in the absence of genetic confounds.
The Acquisition of English by Internationally-Adopted Preschoolers: A Natural Experiment in Language Development
Jesse Snedeker,Joy Geren,Isabel Martin,Caroline Whiting,Nicole Gavel +4 more
- 01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study of parent recruitment and parent contact with the National Science Foundation (BCS-0418423) and the Kagan Undergraduate Research Award (I.M.).
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