Structural Aspects of Maternal Speech to Infants Reared in Poverty

Adams, Judith L.; Ramey, Craig T.

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“…We were less successful in our attempt to isolate the acoustic parameters or set of parameters responsible for greater infant attention. If highly salient features occur infrequently or are missing, as has been reported by Adams & Ramey (1980), then an intervention might be initiated to increase maternal usage of these features, thereby increasing infant attention to the mother and her speech, and potentially preventing language delay in the infant. Methodological contributions.…”

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The effects of intonation on infant attention: the role of the rising intonation contour

Sullivan

Horowitz

1983

J. Child Lang.

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The study was designed to investigate 2-month-old infant preferential attention to a feature found to be characteristic of mothers' speech to their infants. A modified infant-control auditory preference paradigm was employed to assess infants' differential attention to synthetically generated and naturally produced rising and falling intonation contours. Analysis of these data revealed that the infants attended more to the rising naturally produced intonation contour. A reverse pattern of greater attention to the falling contour was found with the synthetically generated stimuli. In addition, inspection of the results permitted the conclusion that the infant-control preference paradigm was a viable method for assessing the 2-month-old infant's preferential attention to auditory stimuli. The results are discussed in terms of their relevance to the study of the infant's developing language reception abilities.[*] Thanks are extended to the members of the Kansas University Infant Laboratory -

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The effects of intonation on infant attention: the role of the rising intonation contour

Sullivan

Horowitz

1983

J. Child Lang.

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“…It may not only be the pressure of living in adversity which fosters intrusive parenting. Parents with lower levels of education and family income may also have less knowledge of child development and different verbal skills (Rowe, ), factors which have been associated with greater use of utterances intended to direct child behavior (Adams & Ramey, ; Hoff‐Ginsborg, ; Rowe, ). Additionally, lower socioeconomic status parents can be less able to adapt their verbal responsiveness in line with their child's development when compared to middle class parents (Lawrence & Shipley, ).…”

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Associations between Maternal Behaviors at 1 Year and Child Language at 2 Years in a Cohort of Women Experiencing Adversity

Smith

Levickis

Eadie

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Infancy

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Variations in parenting have been suggested as contributing to a higher prevalence of language difficulties in children experiencing economic, environmental, and social adversity. Within these cohorts, the contribution of responsive and intrusive parenting to child language has been investigated; specific responsive and intrusive behaviors encapsulated within these parenting styles have yet to be fully examined. Additionally, the role of the mother–child dynamic in moderating mother–child associations has also not been explored. This study aimed to augment current research by identifying specific responsive and intrusive maternal behaviors associated with child language in a cohort experiencing adversity, as well as exploring the role of the fluency and connectedness of mother–child conversation in moderating associations (n = 249). Specific behaviors and the fluency and connectedness of the mother–child interaction were coded from free‐play videos at child age 12 months. Child language measures were derived from transcripts of free play at 24 months. Linear regression models were used to examine maternal–child associations. The moderating role of fluency and connectedness was then explored. Maternal imitations were positively associated with the child's total words; successful redirectives were negatively associated with the child's mean length of turn. Both associations were moderated by the fluency and connectedness of the interaction.

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“…The role of adult input to children raised in poverty has begun to attract increased attention; the gap in vocabulary achievement between such children and peers from more advantaged homes is particularly sobering, as Hart and Risley were the first to show. 83 Although individual variation is seen in low-income maternal language use, 84 mothers in lower-SES households tend to be more directive, 85 and they generally display patterns of input that are considered less facilitative of children's language development, [86][87][88] including less enriched vocabulary, 89 even during language-enhancing activities such as joint book reading. 90 How does SES impact the nature of input to young children?…”

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Why Talk with Children Matters: Clinical Implications of Infant- and Child-Directed Speech Research

Ratner

2013

Semin Speech Lang

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This article reviews basic features of infant- or child-directed speech, with particular attention to those aspects of the register that have been shown to impact profiles of child language development. It then discusses concerns that arise when describing adult input to children with language delay or disorder, or children at risk for depressed language skills. The article concludes with some recommendations for parent counseling in such cases, as well as methods that speech-language pathologists can use to improve the quality and quantity of language input to language-learning children.

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Structural Aspects of Maternal Speech to Infants Reared in Poverty

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The effects of intonation on infant attention: the role of the rising intonation contour

The effects of intonation on infant attention: the role of the rising intonation contour

Associations between Maternal Behaviors at 1 Year and Child Language at 2 Years in a Cohort of Women Experiencing Adversity

Why Talk with Children Matters: Clinical Implications of Infant- and Child-Directed Speech Research

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