Living the first years in a pandemic: children's linguistic development and related factors in and out of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

IF 1.7 2区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI:10.1017/S0305000924000412

Irene Cadime, Ana Lúcia Santos, Iolanda Ribeiro, Fernanda Leopoldina Viana, María Teresa Martín-Aragoneses

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Abstract

This retrospective study provides insights on linguistic development in exceptional circumstances assessing 378 children (between 2;6 and 3;6) who lived their first years during the COVID-19 pandemic and comparing it with normative data collected before this period (CDI-III-PT; Cadime et al., 2021). It investigates the extent to which linguistic development was modulated by a complex set of factors, including sex, maternal education, book reading, language-promoting practices, COVID-19 infection, parental stress and sleeping problems, considering three periods (during lockdowns, out of lockdowns and at present). The results show a substantial negative effect of the pandemic on both lexical and syntactic development. Considering individual variation, structural equation modelling unveiled a complex scenario in which age, sex, book reading, language-promoting practices, sleeping problems and COVID-19 infection showed a direct effect on linguistic development. Maternal education and parental stress had an indirect effect on children's language, mediated by book reading and sleeping problems, respectively.

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在大流行病中度过最初几年：COVID-19 封锁区内外儿童的语言发展及相关因素。

这项回顾性研究对 378 名在 COVID-19 大流行期间度过最初几年的儿童（2;6 到 3;6）进行了评估，并与这一时期之前收集的标准数据（CDI-III-PT；Cadime 等人，2021 年）进行了比较，从而对特殊情况下的语言发展提出了见解。该研究调查了语言发展在多大程度上受到一系列复杂因素的调节，包括性别、母亲教育、图书阅读、语言促进实践、COVID-19 感染、父母压力和睡眠问题，并考虑了三个时期（封锁期间、封锁之外和目前）。结果表明，大流行病对词汇和句法的发展都有很大的负面影响。考虑到个体差异，结构方程模型揭示了一个复杂的情况，即年龄、性别、图书阅读、语言促进做法、睡眠问题和 COVID-19 感染对语言发展有直接影响。母亲的教育程度和父母的压力对儿童的语言能力有间接影响，分别由图书阅读和睡眠问题中介。

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Journal of Child Language Multiple-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

4.50%

发文量

142

期刊介绍： A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.