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Skill-Experience Transactions across Development: Bidirectional Relations between Child Core Language and the Child's Home Learning Environment
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Esposito, Gianluca – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The transaction of children's core language skill and their home learning environment was assessed across 5 waves from infancy (15 months) up to adolescence (11 years) in 1,751 low-socioeconomic status families. Child core language skill and the quality of the home learning environment were each stable across waves, and the two covaried at each…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Educational Environment, Family Environment, Socioeconomic Status
Naturalistic Language Recordings Reveal "Hypervocal" Infants at High Familial Risk for Autism
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Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Boyd, Brian; Clements, Mark; Rehg, James; Elison, Jed T.; Paterson, Sarah; Parish-Morris, Julia; Chappell, J. Chad; Hazlett, Heather C.; Emerson, Robert W.; Botteron, Kelly; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph – Child Development, 2018
Children's early language environments are related to later development. Little is known about this association in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often experience language delays or have ASD. Fifty-nine 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk for ASD contributed full-day in-home language recordings.…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Environmental Influences
The Role of Parent Education and Parenting Knowledge in Children's Language and Literacy Skills among White, Black, and Latino Families
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Rowe, Meredith L.; Denmark, Nicole; Harden, Brenda Jones; Stapleton, Laura M. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
This study investigated the role of parenting knowledge of infant development in children's subsequent language and pre-literacy skills among White, Black and Latino families of varying socioeconomic status. Data come from 6,150 participants in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. Mothers' knowledge of infant development was…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Literacy, Hispanic Americans
Can Semantic Enrichment Lead to Naming in a Word Extension Task?
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Singleton, Nina Capone – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined the relationship between semantic enrichment and naming in children asked to extend taught words to untrained exemplars. Method: Sixteen typically developing children ( M = 32.63 months, SD = 4.02) participated in 3 word learning conditions that varied semantic enrichment via iconic (shape, function) or point gesture.…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Cues
Caregivers' Suffix Frequencies and Suffix Acquisition by Language Impaired, Late Talking, and Typically Developing Children
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Warlaumont, Anne S.; Jarmulowicz, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Acquisition of regular inflectional suffixes is an integral part of grammatical development in English and delayed acquisition of certain inflectional suffixes is a hallmark of language impairment. We investigate the relationship between input frequency and grammatical suffix acquisition, analyzing 217 transcripts of mother-child (ages 1 ; 11-6 ;…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Impairments, Caregivers
Age and Sex Differences in Interaction with a Human Infant.
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Blakemore, Judith E. O. – Child Development, 1981
Examines sex differences in vocalizations and play behaviors displayed toward an infant by preschoolers, preadolescents, and adults. Preschoolers showed less interaction than older subjects. Males talked and played less with the baby than did females at all ages; however, among adult subjects, no sex-role effects were found. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Children
The Role of Perceptual Uncertainty in the Transition to Language.
Greenfield, Patricia Marks – 1979
This paper discusses the role of attention to uncertainty in mediating the transition from sensorimotor activity to language. It is proposed that language from the very beginning is used to resolve uncertainty by selectively marking points of change, deviation from the familiar or choice from among alternatives. Several research findings are…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Child Language, Children
Cognitive and Mental Development in the First Five Years of Life. A Review of Recent Research.
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Lichtenberg, Philip; Norton, Dolores G. – 1970
This report surveys writings by National Institute of Mental Health grant recipients who have investigated this first five years of life. The authors attempted to identify and correlate ideas, themes, perspectives and issues which can be useful in the formulation and evaluation of social policies related to infant and child development. Major…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Child Rearing, Children