ArticleChild development2023
Talking to talkers: Infants' talk status, but not their gender, is related to language input.
Article in Child development, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Bilingual Exposure and Sex Shape Developmental Trajectories of Brain Responses to Speech-Sound Features in Infants.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- A year of nouns from English-learning infants' daily lives: The SEEDLingS-Nouns dataset.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- A year of nouns from English-learning infants' daily lives: The SEEDLingS-Nouns dataset.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Early selective attention to the articulating mouth as a potential female-specific marker of better language development in autism: a review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- "Go, go, go!" Mothers' verbs align with infants' locomotion.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Longitudinal links between maternal directives, children's engagement in family conversations, and child linguistic skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Shaping linguistic input in parent-infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Prior research points to gender differences in some early language skills, but is inconclusive about the mechanisms at play, providing evidence that both infants' early input and productions may differ by gender. This study examined the linguistic input and early productions of 44 American English-learning infants (93% White) in a longitudinal sample of home recordings collected at 6-17 months (in 2014-2016). Girls produced more unique words than boys (Cohen's d = .67) and this effect grew with age, but there were no significant gender differences in language input (d = .22-.24). Instead, caregivers talked more to infants who had begun to talk (d = .93-.97), regardless of gender. Therefore, prior results highlighting gender-based input differences may have been due, at least partly, to this talking-to-talkers effect.
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