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Direct linkChristine Michel; Daniel Matthes; Stefanie Hoehl – Child Development, 2024
This study investigates infants' neural and behavioral responses to maternal ostensive signals during naturalistic mother-infant interactions and their effects on object encoding. Mothers familiarized their 9- to 10-month-olds (N = 35, 17 females, mainly White, data collection: 2018-2019) with objects with or without mutual gaze, infant-directed…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infant Behavior
Perla B. Gámez; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira; Paola Pinzón-Henao – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study (data collected from 2019 to 2023) examines the relation between Spanish-English bilingual Latino toddlers' (n=46; F=22; M=24) early gesture production (Mage=18.67 months; SD[subscript age]=1.02) and later language skills (M[subscript age]=36.87 months; SD[subscript age]=0.81). Video recordings at child-age 18-months…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spanish
Miller, Hilary E.; Andrews, Chelsea A.; Simmering, Vanessa R. – Child Development, 2020
This study took a novel approach to understanding the role of language in spatial development by combining approaches from spatial language and gesture research. It analyzed forty-three 4.5- to 6-year-old's speech and gesture production during explanations of reasoning behind performance on Spatial Analogies and Children's Mental Transformation…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Acquisition, Spatial Ability, Child Development
Swingley, Daniel; Humphrey, Colman – Child Development, 2018
To evaluate which features of spoken language aid infant word learning, a corpus of infant-directed speech (M. R. Brent & J. M. Siskind, 2001) was characterized on several linguistic dimensions and statistically related to the infants' vocabulary outcomes word by word. Comprehension (at 12 and 15 months) and production (15 months) were…
Descriptors: Infants, Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
