Publication Date
| In 2025 | 1 |
| Since 2024 | 4 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 9 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 20 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 48 |
Descriptor
| Child Development | 70 |
| Child Language | 70 |
| Infants | 70 |
| Language Acquisition | 53 |
| Parent Child Relationship | 19 |
| Toddlers | 19 |
| Longitudinal Studies | 17 |
| Foreign Countries | 15 |
| Mothers | 15 |
| Vocabulary Development | 12 |
| Language Research | 11 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
| Early Childhood Education | 9 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Kindergarten | 1 |
| Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Community | 1 |
| Parents | 1 |
| Policymakers | 1 |
| Researchers | 1 |
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| France | 2 |
| Italy | 2 |
| Japan | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| Australia | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| District of Columbia | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| New Jersey | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkYoung, Vanessa; Goouch, Kathleen; Powell, Sacha – British Journal of Music Education, 2022
The Babysong Project arose out of the Baby Room Project and its aims included supporting baby room practitioners to develop 'communicative musicality' (Malloch & Trevarthen 2009), extending research knowledge about baby room practices and helping practitioners to explore opportunities to question and adapt their own ways of working with babies…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Child Language, Child Development
Kaveri K. Sheth; Naja Ferjan Ramírez – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Research on "parentese," the acoustically exaggerated, slower, and higher-pitched speech directed toward infants, has mostly focused on maternal contributions, although it has long been known that fathers also produce parentese. Given recent societal changes in family dynamics, it is necessary to revise these mother-centered models of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Syntax
Kelsey L. West; Sarah E. Steward; Emily Roemer Britsch; Jana M. Iverson – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
New motor skills can shape how infants communicate with their caregivers. For example, learning to walk allows infants to move faster and farther than they previously could, in turn allowing them to approach their caregivers more frequently to gesture or vocalize. Does the link between walking and communication differ for infants later diagnosed…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Physical Mobility, Child Language
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
Helen L. Long; Gordon Ramsay; Edina R. Bene; Pumpki Lei Su; Hyunjoo Yoo; Cheryl Klaiman; Stormi L. Pulver; Shana Richardson; Moira L. Pileggi; Natalie Brane; D. Kimbrough Oller – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study explores vocal development as an early marker of autism, focusing on canonical babbling rate and onset, typically established by 7 months. Previous reports suggested delayed or reduced canonical babbling in infants later diagnosed with autism, but the story may be complicated. We present a prospective study on 44 infants later diagnosed…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Child Language, Oral Language
Feyza Çorapçi; Bengü Börkan; Burcu Bugan-Kisir; Nihal Yeniad; Hande Sart; Serra Müderrisoglu – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Drawing on the family stress model (Conger and Donnellan in Ann Rev Psychol 58:175-199, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085551), parenting programs typically support caregivers' nurturing and cognitively stimulating practices to mitigate the effects of poverty on child development, with small-to-moderate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Visits, Child Rearing, Economically Disadvantaged
Bornstein, Marc H.; Henry, Lauren M.; Manian, Nanmathi – Developmental Psychology, 2021
We compared language comprehension and production across the second year of life in children of clinically depressed mothers who later remitted with children of nondepressed mothers. Altogether, 157 mother-child dyads participated: 46 with mothers diagnosed at infant age 5 months as having major, minor, or other depressive disorders who fully…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Infants, Depression (Psychology)
Bergmann, Christina; Tsuji, Sho; Piccinini, Page E.; Lewis, Molly L.; Braginsky, Mika; Frank, Michael C.; Cristia, Alejandrina – Child Development, 2018
Previous work suggests that key factors for replicability, a necessary feature for theory building, include statistical power and appropriate research planning. These factors are examined by analyzing a collection of 12 standardized meta-analyses on language development between birth and 5 years. With a median effect size of Cohen's d = 0.45 and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Child Development
Cournane, Ailís – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
This paper revisits the longstanding observation that children produce modal verbs (e.g., must, could) with their root meanings (e.g., abilities, obligations) by age 2, typically a year or more earlier than with their epistemic meanings (e.g., inferences). Established explanations for this "Epistemic Gap" argue that epistemic language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Inferences, Syntax
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition
McGillion, Michelle; Herbert, Jane S.; Pine, Julian; Vihman, Marilyn; dePaolis, Rory; Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Matthews, Danielle – Child Development, 2017
A child's first words mark the emergence of a uniquely human ability. Theories of the developmental steps that pave the way for word production have proposed that either vocal or gestural precursors are key. These accounts were tested by assessing the developmental synchrony in the onset of babbling, pointing, and word production for 46 infants…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Socioeconomic Status, Verbal Communication
Zampini, Laura; Burla, Tiziana; Silibello, Gaia; Capelli, Elena; Dall'Ara, Francesca; Rigamonti, Claudia; Ajmone, Paola Francesca; Monti, Federico; Zanchi, Paola; Lalatta, Faustina; Costantino, Maria Antonella; Vizziello, Paola Giovanna – First Language, 2021
Individuals with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) have an increased risk of language delays and impairments. However, there are only a few data relative to their language development in early childhood. The present study aimed to investigate the preverbal skills shown by a group of 8-month-old children with SCTs to assess the presence of a possible…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Language Acquisition, Infants, Genetic Disorders
Cantle Moore, Robyn; Colyvas, Kim – Deafness & Education International, 2018
The purpose of this study was to establish a set of normative data (growth curve and centiles) for the Infant Monitor of vocal Production (IMP) using a representative population of infants with typically developing hearing. A linear mixed effect model and regression was used to derive 'stage-for-age' trajectory and growth centiles from the…
Descriptors: Infants, Parents, Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons
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
Becerra-Culqui, Tracy A.; Lynch, Frances L.; Owen-Smith, Ashli A.; Spitzer, Joseph; Croen, Lisa A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Specific developmental concerns can distinguish between an early versus later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Caregiver survey responses of children = 9 years-of-age (2012) with ASD were used to evaluate developmental concerns and associations with age of diagnosis [early (< 3 years: n = 106) vs. later (= 3 years: n = 432)] using…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Clinical Diagnosis, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
