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Masek, Lillian R.; Weiss, Staci Meredith; McMillan, Brianna T. M.; Paterson, Sarah J.; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Developmental Science, 2023
High-quality communicative interactions between caregivers and children provide a foundation for children's social and cognitive skills. Although most studies examining these types of interactions focus on child language outcomes, this paper takes another tack. It examines whether communicative, dyadic interactions might also relate to child…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Executive Function, Child Language
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Yan Jiang; Alison Wishard Guerra; Shana R. Cohen; Timothy T. Brown; Naomi T. Lin; Monica Molgaard; John Iversen – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Early elementary school is a crucial time for the development of executive functions, but less is known about the impact of parent-child narratives on executive function development in children of this age group. This study aims to investigate the influence of parental scaffolding styles in parent-child co-constructed narratives…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Parents as Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Grinstead, John – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Interface Delay is a theory of syntactic development, which attempts to explain an array of constructions that are slow to develop, which are characterized by being sensitive to discourse-pragmatic considerations of the type associated with the natural semantic class of definites. The theory claims that neither syntax itself, nor the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Pragmatics
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Ronfard, Samuel; Wei, Ran; Rowe, Meredith L. – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The looking-while-listening (LWL) paradigm is frequently used to measure toddlers' lexical processing efficiency (LPE). Children's LPE is associated with vocabulary size, yet other linguistic, cognitive, or social skills contributing to LPE are not well understood. It also remains unclear whether LPE measures from two types of LWL trials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Interpersonal Competence
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
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Jamsek, Izabela A.; Holt, Rachael Frush; Kronenberger, William G.; Pisonic, David B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of parental sensitivity in language and neurocognitive outcomes in children who are deaf and/or hard of hearing (DHH). Method: Sixty-two parent-child dyads of children with normal hearing (NH) and 64 of children who are DHH (3-8 years) completed parent and child measures of inhibitory…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Young Children, Child Caregivers, Parents
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Cioffi, Camille C.; Griffin, Amanda M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Reiss, David; Ganiban, Jody M.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Leve, Leslie D. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Understanding the role of negative emotionality in the development of executive functioning (EF) and language skills can help identify developmental windows that may provide promising opportunities for intervention. In addition, because EF and language skills are, in part, genetically influenced, intergenerational transmission patterns are…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Executive Function, Language Skills