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Lindsay Hippe; Victoria Hennessy; Naja Ferjan Ramirez; T. Christina Zhao – Developmental Science, 2024
Infants are immersed in a world of sounds from the moment their auditory system becomes functional, and experience with the auditory world shapes how their brain processes sounds in their environment. Across cultures, speech and music are two dominant auditory signals in infants' daily lives. Decades of research have repeatedly shown that both…
Descriptors: Infants, North Americans, Family Environment, Music
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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Developmental Science, 2022
For the past 25 years, researchers have investigated language input to children from high- and low-socioeconomic status (SES) families. Hart and Risley first reported a "30 Million Word Gap" between high-SES and low-SES children. More recent studies have challenged the size or even existence of this gap. The present study is a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Infants, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language