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Direct linkZuzanna Laudanska; Karolina Babis; Agata Koziol; Magdalena Szmytke; Peter B. Marschik; Dajie Zhang; Anna Malinowska-Korczak; David López Pérez; Przemyslaw Tomalski – Developmental Science, 2025
Speech development occurs in highly variable environments; however, little is known about the effect of situational context on emerging infant vocalizations. At 4 time points (4, 6, 9, and 12 months), we longitudinally measured vocalizations of 104 White infant-caregiver dyads (41 girls) during three play contexts: book-sharing, toy play, and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Interpersonal Communication, Infants, Speech Communication
Cristia, Alejandrina; Gautheron, Lucas; Colleran, Heidi – Developmental Science, 2023
What are the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula island, Vanuatu, where multilingualism is the norm? Long-form audio-recordings captured spontaneous speech behavior by, and around, 38 children (5-33 months, 23 girls) from 11 villages. Automated analyses revealed most children's vocal input came from female adults and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Infant Behavior
Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Dohen, Marion; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – Developmental Science, 2022
Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present study, we investigate the children's use of head gestures as it compares to prosodic cues to signal a referent as being contrastive relative to a set of possible…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Hernik, Mikolaj; Broesch, Tanya – Developmental Science, 2019
Gaze is considered a crucial component of early communication between an infant and her caregiver. When communicatively addressed, infants respond aptly to others' gaze by following its direction. However, experience with face-to-face contact varies across cultures, begging the question whether infants' competencies in receiving others'…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Influences
Kidd, Evan; Holler, Judith – Developmental Science, 2009
We report on a study investigating 3-5-year-old children's use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity. Children were told three short stories that contained two homonym senses; for example, "bat" (flying mammal) and "bat" (sports equipment). They were then asked to re-tell these stories to a second experimenter. The data were coded for the means…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Communication Skills, Young Children, Speech Communication
Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Developmental Science, 2008
Autism is a disorder characterized by a core impairment in social behaviour. A prominent component of this social deficit is poor orienting to speech. It is unclear whether this deficit involves an impairment in allocating attention to speech sounds, or a sensory impairment in processing phonetic information. In this study, event-related…
Descriptors: Autism, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Speech Communication, Diagnostic Tests
