Language is a fundamentally social endeavor. Pragmatics is the study of how speakers and
listeners use social reasoning to go beyond the literal meanings of words to interpret …

Shared reading research has become increasingly multidisciplinary and has incorporated a
multitude of assessment methods. This calls for an interdisciplinary perspective on children's …

The world's languages vary in almost every conceivable way, yet children readily learn their
native language. Understanding how children can acquire such a diversity of different …

For the past 25 years, researchers have investigated language input to children from high‐
and low‐socioeconomic status (SES) families. Hart and Risley first reported a “30 Million …

Reading stories to children fosters their language development. An approach rarely
investigated is narrators telling stories without reading from text (ie, oral storytelling). Oral …

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to examine the quantity of adult words, adult–
child conversational turns, and electronic media in the auditory environments of toddlers …

Growing recognition of disparities in early childhood language environments prompts
examination of parent–child interactions, which support vocabulary. Research links parental …

Theorists have proposed that child-directed, ostensive interactions provide a critical point of
entry for supporting children's learning from others, either because they render the intentions …

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, covering the mouth region with a face mask became
pervasive in many regions of the world, potentially impacting how people communicate with …

Shared-book reading is a well-established intervention to foster vocabulary development.
Factors influencing its effectiveness are, however, less well studied, particularly with regard …