SynthesisChild development2022
A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the development of turn taking in adult-child vocal interactions.
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- Parents' neural dynamics in response to their children's speech.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Reduced Motor Preparation and Altered EEG Signatures of Prediction in Autistic Adults.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Hallmarks of social action in the vocal turn-taking of wild common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Scaffolding Early Dialogue: A Unified Account of Response Contingency in Child-Caregiver Interaction.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Consistently longer silent gaps in autistic speaker pairs across three conversational contexts.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Human turn-taking development: A multi-faceted review of turn-taking comprehension and production in the first years of life.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Temporal Predictions in Music and Language: The Case of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Social Context Matters for Turn-Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- The Development of Turn-Taking Skills in Typical Development and Autism.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- Context Shapes (Proto)Conversations in the First Year of Life.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Seeing it in others versus doing it yourself: Social desirability judgements and conversation production data from autistic and non-autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A comparison of automatic and manual measures of turn-taking in monolingual and bilingual contexts.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- A scoping review of interaction dynamics in minimally verbal autistic individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysis.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Repeat After Me? Both Children With and Without Autism Commonly Align Their Language With That of Their Caregivers.Cognitive science · 2023Article
- Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi-level meta-analysis, we map the trajectory of infants' turn-taking abilities over the course of early development (0 to 70 months). We synthesize the evidence from 26 studies (78 estimates from 429 unique infants, of which at least 152 are female) reporting response latencies in infant-adult dyadic interactions. The data were collected between 1975 and 2019, exclusively in North America and Europe. Infants took on average circa 1 s to respond, and the evidence of changes in response over time was inconclusive. Infants' response latencies are related to those of their adult conversational partners: an increase of 1 s in adult response latency (e.g., 400 to 1400 ms) would be related to an increase of over 1 s in infant response latency (from 600 to 1857 ms). These results highlight the dynamic reciprocity involved in the temporal organization of turn-taking. Based on these results, we provide recommendations for future avenues of enquiry: studies should analyze how turn-by-turn exchanges develop on a longitudinal timescale, with rich assessment of infants' linguistic and social development.
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