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Direct linkRvachew, Susan; Creighton, Dianne; Feldman, Naida; Sauve, Reg – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2005
This study describes the vocal development of infants born with very low birth weights (VLBW). Samples of vocalizations were recorded from three groups of infants when they were 8, 12 and 18 months of age: preterm VLBW infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), preterm VLBW infants without BPD, and healthy full-term infants. Infants with BPD…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Premature Infants, Speech Skills, Verbal Development
Peer reviewedDunham, Philip; Dunham, Frances – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers' utterances were measured during interactions with their 13-month-old infants and correlated with measures of infants' productive lexical development at 13 and 24 months. Correlations between maternal measures and infants' lexical development were lower for employed mothers than for mothers who were full-time caregivers. (BC)
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition
