Why is infant language learning facilitated by parental responsiveness?

CS Tamis-LeMonda, Y Kuchirko… - Current Directions in …, 2014‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Parents' responsiveness to infants' exploratory and communicative behaviors predicts infant
word learning during early periods of language development. We examine the processes …

Routine language: Speech directed to infants during home activities

CS Tamis‐LeMonda, S Custode, Y Kuchirko… - Child …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Everyday activities are replete with contextual cues for infants to exploit in the service of
learning words. Nelson's (1985) script theory guided the hypothesis that infants participate in …

Power in methods: Language to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts

CS Tamis‐LeMonda, Y Kuchirko, R Luo… - Developmental …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Methods can powerfully affect conclusions about infant experiences and learning. Data from
naturalistic observations may paint a very different picture of learning and development from …

Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words

R Foushee, M Srinivasan - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Theories of language development—informed largely by studies of Western, middleclass
infants—have highlighted the language that caregivers direct to children as a key driver of …

Language and play in parent–child interactions

CS Tamis-LeMonda, YA Kuchirko, K Escobar… - Handbook of …, 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reviews parents' role in children's early language development and the features
of child-directed speech that promote language learning. It provides to parenting in play and …

Multilingual Children beyond Myths and toward Best Practices. Social Policy Report. Volume 27, Number 4.

A McCabe, CS Tamis-LeMonda, MH Bornstein… - Society for Research in …, 2013‏ - ERIC
Multilingualism is an international fact of life and increasing in the United States. Multilingual
families are exceedingly diverse, and policies relevant to them should take this into account …

From action to interaction: Infant object exploration and mothers' contingent responsiveness

CS Tamis-LeMonda, Y Kuchirko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examined maternal contingent responsiveness to infant object exploration in 190 mother-
infant pairs from diverse cultural communities. Dyads were video-recorded during book …

On differences and deficits: A critique of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the word gap

Y Kuchirko - Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The word gap, or the language gap, can be traced back to Hart and Risley's 1995 seminal
work on language practices in high-and low-income families, and it is one of the most widely …

Vocal development in a large‐scale crosslinguistic corpus

M Cychosz, A Cristia, E Bergelson… - Developmental …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluates whether early vocalizations develop in similar ways in children across
diverse cultural contexts. We analyze data from daylong audio recordings of 49 children (1 …

The developmental landscape of early parent-focused language intervention

LB Adamson, AP Kaiser, CS Tamis-LaMonda… - Early Childhood …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This essay stresses the importance of infusing a developmental perspective into the design,
implementation, and evaluation of parent-focused language interventions to promote young …