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Paul Okyere Omane; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' preference for vowelharmony (VH, a phonotactic constraint that requires vowels in a word to be featurally similar) is thought to be language-specific: Monolingual infants learning VH languages show a listening preference for VH patterns by 6 months of age, while those learning non-VH languages do not (Gonzalez-Gomez et al., 2019; Van…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Sonali Poudel; Kathleen Denicola-Prechtl; Jackie A. Nelson; Mohammad Hossein Behboudi; Carlos Benitez-Barrera; Stephanie Castro; Mandy J. Maguire – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The number of U.S. children living in households with extended families has greatly increased in the last 4 decades. This demographic shift calls for a reevaluation of the impact of household size on children's development. Household density (HHD), measured as the ratio of people to bedrooms in a home, has been shown to negatively relate to…
Descriptors: Family Size, Family Environment, Child Language, Child Development