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    "pk": 27209,
    "title": "Network Analysis of a Large Sample of Typical and Late Talkers",
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    "abstract": "The focus of this paper is to examine differences in semantic\nnetwork structure of late talkers and typical talkers to elucidate\npotential learning strategies used by late talking children. To\naddress this question, we conducted network analysis on the\nvocabularies of 2,912 children, with 566 of those being late\ntalkers. Contrary to previously reported findings, the results\nshow that late talkers have well-connected vocabularies as\nmeasured by median degree, clustering coefficient, and mean\ndistance, with more well-connected networks in some cases\nthan their typical talking peers. Further analysis of word order\nsuggests that late talkers may be selecting based on frequency\nand connectivity of the words in the learning environment,\nmore so than typical talkers. The language processing\ndifficulties in late talkers appear not to be associated with their\nsemantic network properties. In sum, late talkers may initially\nbenefit from using word frequency and word connectivity\nstrategies to build well-connected vocabularies.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "semantic networks; network analysis; corpus analysis;\nlanguage acquisition; late talkers; word frequency"
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    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Eva",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jimenez",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hills",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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