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February 12, 2026
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Lexical Composition of the Vocabulary of Four-Year-Old Children From Different Social Groups and its Relationship to the Linguistic Environment

Publicated to: Revista de Estudos da Linguagem. 31 (1): 10-50 - 2023-01-01 31(1), DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.31.1.10-50

Authors:

Quiroga, Macarena Sol; Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florencia
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CIIPME CONICET Univ Nacl Hurlingham UNaHur, Ctr Interdisciplinario Invest Psicol Matemat & Exp, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Author
Ctr Interdisciplinario Invest Psicol Matemat & Exp, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Author

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the lexical composition of child expressive vocabulary and its relationship with linguistic input of four-year-old children from different social backgrounds. From a spontaneous speech corpus, we analyzed the transcriptions of 19 children from two different social backgrounds (n = 38), corresponding to 456 hours of recordings, and we analyzed the lexical diversity and quantity of nouns, adjectives, and verbs, both in child vocabulary and input they were exposed to. The analysis of variance showed that in both cases there was a greater noun type quantity compared to the other word classes, but a greater token quantity of verbs. Beta regressions with child vocabulary as a dependent variable showed that belonging to a socioeconomic group was a predictor of the three lexical classes' types, but only of the adjective's tokens; the presence of each word class in the linguistic input was a predictor of all three word classes, and only of adjective and verb types. These results manifest the complexity of early childhood experiences and the need to pay attention to the various contexts where children acquire language.
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Keywords

AcquisitionChild productionDirected speechEnglishJapanese childrenLanguage inputLearning wordsLexical compositionLinguistic inputNoun biasSocioeconomic-statusSpanishVerbsVocabulary

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Q3 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in Linguistics and Language, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-05:

  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 2.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Argentina.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (ALAM, FLORENCIA).

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