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Profiles of Infant Communicative Behavior
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Margolis, Amy E.; Lee, Sang Han; Peterson, Bradley S.; Beebe, Beatrice – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Prior studies of mother-infant interaction have generally used a variable-centered approach to associate face-to-face communication with psychosocial outcomes. Herein, we use a person-centered approach to identify clusters of infants who exhibit similar behavioral profiles during face-to-face communication with their mothers. Four infant…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Child Language, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Long-Term Stability of Core Language Skill in Children with Contrasting Language Skills
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Putnick, Diane L. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This 4-wave longitudinal study evaluated stability of core language skill in 421 European American and African American children, half of whom were identified as low (n = 201) and half of whom were average-to-high (n = 220) in later language skill. Structural equation modeling supported loadings of multivariate age-appropriate multisource measures…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Whites, African Americans
Stability of Language in Childhood: A Multiage, Multidomain, Multimeasure, and Multisource Study
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The stability of language across childhood is traditionally assessed by exploring longitudinal relations between individual language measures. However, language encompasses many domains and varies with different sources (child speech, parental report, experimenter assessment). This study evaluated individual variation in multiple age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Child Language, Measures (Individuals), Age Differences
First Sentences in Language and Symbolic Play.
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Shore, Cecilia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Combinatorial abilities in language and elicited symbolic play were compared in a longitudinal study of 30 children at 20 and 28 months. In addition, multivariate analyses were used to assess the stability of individual differences. Generally, different symbolic play variables contributed unique explained variance to different language variables.…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences
Labels and Explanations in Mother--Child Emotion Talk: Age and Gender Differentiation.
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Cervantes, Christi A.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined mothers' and preschoolers' emotion talk for age- and gender-related patterns in use of labels and explanations. Found that children used emotion words mainly in labels. Boys' emotion talk increased with age. The youngest girls had more emotion talk than same-age boys. Mothers used more explanations than labels with boys but similar…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Emotional Development
External Sources of Individual Differences? A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of the Phonetics of Mothers' Speech to 1-Year-Old Children.
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Vihman, Marilyn M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Sampled the speech of American, French, and Swedish mothers to their one-year olds, to analyze distribution of phonetic parameters of adult speech, as well as children's own early words. Found that variability is greater in child words than in adult speech, and mother-child dyads showed no evidence of specific maternal influence on phonetics of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies