When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that
directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide …

The human brain requires a wide variety of experiences and environmental inputs in order
to develop normally. Children who are neglected by caregivers or raised in institutional …

The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into
theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological …

Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to
methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges …

Young children's language experiences and language outcomes are highly variable.
Research in recent decades has focused on understanding the extent to which family …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

We review research evidence on the emergence and development of active “self-and-other”
awareness in infancy, and examine the importance of its motives and emotions to mental …

Various aspects of motherese also known as infant-directed speech (IDS) have been
studied for many years. As it is a widespread phenomenon, it is suspected to play some …

2 experiments examined behavioral preferences for infant‐directed (ID) speech over adult‐
directed (AD) speech in young infants. Using a modification of the visual‐fixation‐based …

This volume is concerned with elucidating similarities and differences in enculturation
processes that help to account for the ways in which individuals in different cultures develop …