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Zahra Halavani; H. Henny Yeung; Senay Cebioglu; Tanya Broesch – Infant and Child Development, 2024
It is known that infant-directed speech (IDS) plays a key role in language development. Previous research, however, has also identified significant variability across societies in terms of how often IDS occurs. For example, some studies report very little IDS in non-western, small-scale societies -- including children growing up in small-scale…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mothers