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Direct linkAlexandra Diamond – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
This qualitative ethnographic research explores baby talk (BT) and ontology of infancy in a small, rural Indo-Fijian community via semistructured interviews with mothers about their children's language learning, mothers' narratives about their photographs of their young children engaged in everyday language, and audio- and video-recordings of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition
Mastin, J. Douglas; Voght, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study analyzes how others engage rural and urban Mozambican infants during naturalistic observations, and how the proportion of time spent in different engagements relates to infants' language development over the second year of life. Using an extended version of Bakeman and Adamson's (1984) categorization of infant engagement, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Infants, Vocabulary Development
Adams, Gail Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In neurotypical infants, genetically-specified attachment/attention mechanisms underpin the motivation to interact, which enables the acquisition of socio-cultural norms for language and accounts for the efficacy of socialization processes (Lee et al., 2009; Schumann, 2013). In children with autism, as in second language acquisition,…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Language Acquisition
Goldstein, Michael H.; Schwade, Jennifer A.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Child Development, 2009
The early noncry vocalizations of infants are salient social signals. Caregivers spontaneously respond to 30%-50% of these sounds, and their responsiveness to infants' prelinguistic noncry vocalizations facilitates the development of phonology and speech. Have infants learned that their vocalizations influence the behavior of social partners? If…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Phonology, Caregivers, Infants
Eisenberg, Ann R. – 1982
The teaching of politeness formulas and their spontaneous use by young children were investigated. The use of such formulas as greetings and thanks was studied in terms of the cultural features that may interact with the learning of such formulas and the analyses children make concerning the situations in which they are used. Conversations were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), English, Infants
Lally, J. Ronald, Ed.; Mangione, Peter L., Ed.; Greenwald, Deborah, Ed. – WestEd, 2006
Leading experts in infant/toddler development have contributed succinct essays drawn from research, theory, clinical case studies, and carefully documented practice. Each essay represents current thinking in the field of infant/toddler development and care. Individually and as a collection, the essays provide a springboard for reflection,…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, Child Development
