RT Journal Article
T1 Communicative and linguistic factors influencing language development at 30 months of age in preterm and full-term children: a longitudinal study using the CDI
A1 Ogneva, Anastasiia
A1 Pérez Pereira, Miguel
K1 Low-risk preterm children
K1 Gestures
K1 Lexical development
K1 Grammatical development
K1 Determinants of language development
AB Introduction: Previous studies showed that very preterm children have a delayin communicative (gestures) and linguistic development as compared to fulltermchildren. Earlier use of gestures, as well as of word comprehension andproduction, have been found to be predictive of subsequent word productionand/or language delay in both very preterm and full-term children. Not manystudies on communicative antecedents of language, however, have been carriedout with low-risk preterm children in comparison to full-term children.Methods: In the present study a sample (N = 142) of low-risk preterm children hasbeen followed using the Galician version of the Communicative DevelopmentInventories (CDI) at the ages of 10, 22, and 30 months of age and their resultswere compared to the results from a sample (N = 49) of full-term children at thesame ages. The determinants of language measures (vocabulary and grammar) at30 months of age have been studied through linear regression analyses.Results: ANOVA results indicate that there were no significant differencesbetween the groups in any of the measures obtained with the CDI at any time, norwere there any differences in lexical or grammatical developmental trajectoriesbetween both groups (repeated measures ANOVA). Linear regression analysesshowed that the predictors of language at 30 months of age are somewhatdifferent for the full-term than for the preterm group.Discussion: While the use of first communicative gestures at 10 months is apredictor of word production at 30 months of age for the full-term group,participation in games and routines seems to play a significant predictive rolefor preterm children. Word production at 22 months is the factor with a majorincidence on word production at the age of 30 months for both groups. Previousspecific measures of grammatical development have a clear determinant role ingrammar measures at 30 months of age for the full-term children, while in thecase of preterm children previous lexical development seems to be more relevant
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1664-1078
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31649
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31649
LA eng
NO Ogneva A. and Pérez-Pereira M. (2023). Communicative and linguistic factors influencing language development at 30 months of age in preterm and full-term children: a longitudinal study using the CDI. Front. Psychol. 14:1177161
NO This research was funded by the Ministerio Economía Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish Government (Grants PSI2008-03905, PSI2011-23210, and PSI2015-66697-R to MP-P). Funds for open access publication fees were received from the Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional -Xunta de Galicia
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026