ArticleClinical linguistics & phonetics2016
Volubility of the human infant: Effects of parental interaction (or lack of it).
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- Socioeconomic Deprivation Detrimentally Influences Language Outcomes in Toddlers With Cleft Palate.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- From emotional signals to symbols.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Profiling the Longitudinal Development of Babbling in Infants with Cerebral Palsy: Validation of the Infant Monitor of Vocal Production (IMP) Using the Stark Assessment of Early Vocal Development-Revised (SAEVD-R).Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mixed-Language Input and Infant Volubility: Friend or Foe?Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
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- The home environment and its relation to vocalizations in the first year of life.Pediatric medicine (Hong Kong, China) · 2022Article
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- Vocalisation Repertoire at the End of the First Year of Life: An Exploratory Comparison of Rett Syndrome and Typical Development.Journal of developmental and physical disabilities · 2022Article
- The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development.Infant behavior & development · 2021Article
- Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A Six-Minute Measure of Vocalizations in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
- The Relationship Between the Onset of Canonical Syllables and Speech Perception Skills in Children With Cochlear Implants.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Article
- Social and endogenous infant vocalizations.PloS one · 2020Article
- Functionally Flexible Signaling and the Origin of Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Vocalization frequency as a prognostic marker of language development following early cochlear implantation.Audiology research · 2019Article
- Language Origins Viewed in Spontaneous and Interactive Vocal Rates of Human and Bonobo Infants.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Limiting parental feedback disrupts vocal development in marmoset monkeys.Nature communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although parental volubility, or amount of talk, has received considerable recent attention, infant volubility has received comparatively little attention despite its potential significance for communicative risk status and later linguistic and cognitive outcomes. Volubility of 16 typically developing infants from 2 to 11 months of age was longitudinally investigated in the present study across three social circumstances: parent talking to infant, parent not talking to infant and parent talking to interviewer while the infant was in the room. Results indicated that volubility was least in the Interview circumstance. There were no significant differences in volubility between the parent Talk and No Talk circumstances. Volubility was found to reduce with age. These results suggest that infants vocalise in a variety of circumstances, even when no one talks to or interacts with them. The presence of a stranger or perhaps overhearing adults speaking to each other, however, may significantly reduce infant volubility.
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