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Megan A. Bergeron – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigated the caregiving relationships between infants and nonparental caregivers in early childcare settings through the lens of attachment and language behaviors. This study sought to provide an opportunity to extend our understanding of the socioemotional factors that influence children's development in their daily lives.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Dale, Rick; Spivey, Michael J. – Language Learning, 2006
Recurrence analysis is introduced as a means to investigate syntactic coordination between child and caregiver. Three CHILDES ( MacWhinney, 2000) corpora are analyzed and demonstrate coordination between children and their caregivers in terms of word-class n-gram sequences. Results further indicate that trade-offs in leading or following this…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition, Individual Differences, Children