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 …

Currently, we understand much about how children's brains attend to and learn from
information presented while they are alone, viewing a screen–but less about how …

Parental input is considered a key predictor of language achievement during the first years
of life, yet relatively few studies have assessed the effects of parental language input and …

What is the function of babbling in language learning? We examined the structure of
parental speech as a function of contingency on infants' non-cry prelinguistic vocalizations …

Infants develop in a social context, surrounded by knowledgeable caregivers who scaffold
learning through shared engagement with objects. However, researchers have typically …

Learning of song in birds provides a powerful model for human speech development [1–3].
However, the degree to which songbirds and humans share social mechanisms of vocal …

Research suggests that infants use statistical regularities in linguistic input to identify and
learn a range of linguistic structures, from the sounds of language (eg, native‐language …

The intergenerational transmission of psychopathology is one of the strongest known risk
factors for childhood disorder and may be a malleable target for prevention and intervention …

Most deaf children have hearing parents who do not know a sign language at birth and are
at risk of limited language input during early childhood. Studying these children as they …

Infants' prelinguistic vocalizations reliably organize vocal turn‐taking with social partners,
creating opportunities for learning to produce the sound patterns of the ambient language …