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Murillo, Eva; Ortega, Carlota; Otones, Alicia; Rujas, Irene; Casla, Marta – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the changes in temporal synchrony between gesture and speech of multimodal communicative behaviors in the transition from babbling to two-word productions. Method: Ten Spanish-speaking children were observed at 9, 12, 15, and 18 months of age in a semistructured play situation. We longitudinally…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Spanish Speaking
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Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena; Bailey, Jhonelle; Schmuck, Lauren – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Early spontaneous gesture, specifically deictic gesture, predicts subsequent vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. Here, we ask whether deictic gesture plays a similar role in predicting later vocabulary size in children with Down Syndrome (DS), who have been shown to have difficulties in speech production, but strengths in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication
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Vihman, Marilyn May; DePaolis, Rory A.; Davis, Barbara L. – Child Development, 1998
Analyzed vocalizations/verbalizations from children acquiring English or French in later single-word period to identify trochaic bias. Found that neither language's vocalizations were exclusively trochaic. French/English differences in iambic productions and acoustic realization of accent were traceable to adult input. Distribution of trochaic and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
Morrisset, Colleen E.; Lines, Patricia – 1994
Noting that young children learn to talk at different ages but within certain developmental boundaries, this document presents two charts to help parents facilitate their toddler's speech. The first chart lists characteristics to look for in a growing, healthy baby at various ages between 3 months and 24 months, and suggestions for when to talk to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
Lord, Catherine – 1975
The significance of three mothers' speech for their infants' language development is considered in a continuing longitudinal study. The study began when the children (two females and one male) were 5 and 6 months of age and will continue until the subjects are 3 years old. In the speech data reported the children were from 6 to 18 months of age.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition
Weeks, Thelma E. – 1978
One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intonation