What Mothers Do After Infants Vocalize: Implications for Vocal Development or Word Learning?

Conclusions Evaluating response type subcategories by age group indicated mothers did not respond differentially (verbally or nonverbally) to vowel or consonant-vowel vocalizations. Overall, the results suggest mothers' verbal and nonverbal response types may be more likely to facilitate word learning than vocal development. PMID: 31390286 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390286?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - August 6, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Fagan MK, Doveikis KN Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research

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