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Goldenberg, Elizabeth R.; Repetti, Rena L.; Sandhofer, Catherine M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Children learn what words mean from hearing words used across a variety of contexts. Understanding how different contextual distributions relate to the words young children say is critical because context robustly affects basic learning and memory processes. This study examined children's everyday experiences using naturalistic video recordings to…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Nouns, Linguistic Input, Video Technology
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West, Kelsey L.; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Infants learn nouns during object-naming events--moments when caregivers name the object of infants' play (e.g., ball as infant holds a ball). Do caregivers also label the actions of infants' play (e.g., roll as infant rolls a ball)? We investigated connections between mothers' verb inputs and infants' actions. We video-recorded 32 infant-mother…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Child Behavior, Verbs
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D'Apice, Katrina; Latham, Rachel M.; von Stumm, Sophie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Although early life experiences of language and parenting are critical for children's development, large home observation studies of both domains are scarce in the psychological literature, presumably because of their considerable costs to the participants and researchers. Here, we used digital audio-recorders to unobtrusively observe 107…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Child Language, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
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Booth, Amy E.; Shavlik, Margaret; Haden, Catherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To explore the potential contribution of parents' causal talk to preschooler's emerging scientific literacy and related interests, we observed 153 parent-child dyads playing together in a museum and in the lab. As in previous work, the frequency with which parents referenced causal information in their speech predicted the strength of their…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Scientific Literacy, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Carr, Robert C.; Bratsch-Hines, Mary; Willoughby, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Both early childhood maternal language input and the quality of classroom instruction in elementary school have been shown to be important environmental supports in predicting children's literacy skill development. However, no studies have simultaneously examined these two environmental supports in relation to children's early language skills and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Comprehension
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Pungello, Elizabeth P.; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Dotterer, Aryn M.; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Reznick, J. Steven – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The authors examined the associations between socioeconomic status (SES), race, maternal sensitivity, and maternal negative-intrusive behaviors and language development in a sample selected to reduce the typical confound between race and SES (n = 146). Mother-child interactions were observed at 12 and 24 months (coded by randomly assigned African…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language