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Clifford, Brandon Neil; Stockdale, Laura A.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Rainey, Vanessa; Benitez, Viridiana L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Maternal depression and anxiety are potential risk factors to children's language environments and development. Though existing work has examined relations between these constructs, further work is needed accounting for both depression and anxiety and using more direct measures of the home language environment and children's language development.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Mental Health, Expressive Language
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Doering, Elena; Schluter, Kevin; von Suchodoletz, Antje – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research indicates that features of speech during mother-toddler interactions are dependent on the situational context. In this study, we explored language samples of 69 mother-toddler dyads collected during standardized toy play and book-reading situations across two countries, Germany and the United States (US). The results showed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Story Reading
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Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Children with pre/perinatal unilateral brain lesions (PL) show remarkable plasticity for language development. Is this plasticity characterized by the same developmental trajectory that characterizes typically developing (TD) children, with gesture leading the way into speech? We explored this question, comparing eleven children with PL -- matched…
Descriptors: Brain, Injuries, Prenatal Influences, Perinatal Influences