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Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The current study explored the link between mouthing and fingering and vocal behaviours directed to objects and caregivers. Nine infants were tracked from the ages of 8-16 months by video recording their mouthing and fingering vignettes and vocal behaviours and vocal behaviours resulting in a total of 2,061 coded behaviours. Microanalysis revealed…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Oral Language
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Emma Bergström; Anna Sofia Bratt; Idor Svensson – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Creating an environment suitable for language acquisition through shared reading significantly contributes to improving a child's language development and parent-child relationship. Reading in an interactive way, such as dialogic reading, is favorable. Nevertheless, dialogic reading is designed for children above the age of two and shared reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition, Early Reading
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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Developmental Science, 2022
For the past 25 years, researchers have investigated language input to children from high- and low-socioeconomic status (SES) families. Hart and Risley first reported a "30 Million Word Gap" between high-SES and low-SES children. More recent studies have challenged the size or even existence of this gap. The present study is a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Infants, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language