title: Lexical diversity in listeners' judgments of children.
abstract: This study explored the influence of children's lexical diversity during conversation on the way the children were evaluated by adults. Four adults listened to 93 2-min, samples of children, aged 36 to 78 months, conversing with an adult. They rated each child on 10 7-point bipolar adjective scales. Analysis indicated that children who conversed with low lexical diversity were perceived as less appealing, mature, and talkative than those who conversed with high diversity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Disorders, Bowling Green State University, OH 43403.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Burroughs
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary