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Music Enrichment Programs May Promote Early Language Development by Enhancing Parent Responsiveness: A Narrative Review
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Amy R. Smith; Kai Ling Kong – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
The first years of life are critical for language development. Numerous studies indicate that actively participating in music creates a neural processing advantage in brain regions that support language development. Nevertheless, shared social characteristics between music and language may also play a role in explaining the benefits of music…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Enrichment Activities, Music Activities
Four Decades of Open Language Science: The CHILDES Project
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Vera Kempe; Patricia J. Brooks; Steven Gillis – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), created by Brain MacWhinney and Catherine Snow in 1984, is one of the earliest Open Science and data sharing initiatives in child language development research, and probably in developmental psychology and the behavioral sciences more generally. It is the cornerstone of TalkBank--a repository of…
Descriptors: Databases, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research