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Isil Dogan; Demet Özer; Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Reyhan Furman; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira; Seyda Özçaliskan; Tilbe Göksun – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Children comprehend iconic gestures relatively later than deictic gestures. Previous research with English-learning children indicated that they could comprehend iconic gestures at 26 months, a pattern whose extension to other languages is not yet known. The present study examined Turkish-learning children's iconic gesture comprehension and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Turkish
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Spataro, Pietro; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Longobardi, Emiddia – Infant and Child Development, 2018
Previous research has consistently demonstrated that false-belief (FB) understanding correlates with and predicts metalinguistic ability in preschoolers. Surprisingly, however, there is scant evidence on the question of whether this relation persists at later ages. The present cross-sectional study sought to fill this gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Prediction, Phonemes, Receptive Language
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Weiland, Christina; Barata, M. Clara; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Despite consensus in the developmental literature regarding the role of executive function (EF) skills in supporting the development of language skills during the preschool years, we know relatively little about the associations between EF skills, including all EF components, and vocabulary skills among preschool-aged children. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Role, Executive Function, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
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Albarran, Alejandra S.; Reich, Stephanie M. – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Maternal self-efficacy (MSE) has been shown to be important, yet little is known about how it develops over time and whether increasing knowledge about child development and parenting results in feeling more efficacious, especially for first-time mothers. Furthermore, research is lacking about whether increased maternal self-efficacy results in…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Self Efficacy
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Schmitt, Sara A.; Simpson, Adrianne M.; Friend, Margaret – Infant and Child Development, 2011
This longitudinal assessment concentrated on the relation between the home literacy environment (HLE) and early language acquisition during infancy and toddlerhood. In study 1, after controlling for socio-economic status, a broadly defined HLE predicted language comprehension in 50 infants. In study 2, 27 children returned for further analyses.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Program Effectiveness, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
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Guajardo, Nicole R.; Snyder, Gregory; Petersen, Rachel – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The present study included observational and self-report measures to examine associations among parental stress, parental behaviour, child behaviour, and children's theory of mind and emotion understanding. Eighty-three parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children participated. Parents completed measures of parental stress, parenting (laxness,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Child Behavior