This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language
learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive …

Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

Children's early language exposure impacts their later linguistic skills, cognitive abilities,
and academic achievement, and large disparities in language exposure are associated with …

Psychology must confront the bias in its broad literature toward the study of participants
developing in environments unrepresentative of the vast majority of the world's population …

Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30‐million‐word gap by
claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech than Hart and …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals are able to access and process basic
health information and services and thereby participate in health-related decisions. Limited …

OBJECTIVE: To synthesize results of observational studies examining parenting behavior
and early childhood language in typically developing samples. DATA SOURCES: Searches …

Children from low-income backgrounds consistently perform below their more advantaged
peers on standardized measures of language ability, setting long-term trajectories that …

Neuroscience research has elucidated broad relationships between socioeconomic status
(SES) and young children's brain structure, but there is little mechanistic knowledge about …