We examined the functions of mothers' speech to infants during two tasks–book-sharing and
bead-stringing–in low-income, ethnically diverse families. Mexican, Dominican, and African …

Fathers' child-directed speech across two contexts was examined. Father–child dyads from
sixty-nine low-income families were videotaped interacting during book reading and toy play …

What special role do fathers play in their children's language development? And if father's
speech to their language-learning children is in any sense uniquc or characteristic, are there …

This article summarizes early work on child language learning and reviews more recent
work. It appears that recent research shows that children's linguistic cues, spoken by adults …

The first descriptions of mothers' speech to young children were undertaken in the late
sixties in order to refute the prevailing view that language acquisition was largely innate and …

Individual differences in children's language skills have been shown to stem in part from
variations in the quantity and quality of parent speech input. However, most research …

These questions will be discussed in this thesis in the light from investigations that I have
been involved in and from earlier studies. The complexity of the interaction between the …

The linguistic environment of the child was largely taken for granted by the generative
grammarians of the 1960's because of their emphasis on innate ideas as a basis for first …

First published in 1977, this book draws together various contributions on the area of speech
used by parents with their children. Numerous perspectives on the topic include the …

Infant–parent interactions are bidirectional; therefore, it is important to understand how
infants' communicative behavior elicits variable responses from caregivers and, in turn, how …