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    Talking To Children Matters: Early Language Experience Strengthens Processing and Builds Vocabulary

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    The study explored how the amount of speech directed at infants from Spanish-speaking families with low socioeconomic status influenced language processing development and vocabulary learning. Recordings of parent-infant interactions at home found variability in how much caregivers spoke to children. Infants who experienced more child-directed speech became more efficient at processing familiar words in real-time and had larger vocabularies by age 24 months, while overheard speech was unrelated to vocabulary outcomes. Increased child-directed speech strengthened infants' language processing skills which facilitated greater language growth and vocabulary.

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    The study explored how the amount of speech directed at infants from Spanish-speaking families with low socioeconomic status influenced language processing development and vocabulary learning. Recordings of parent-infant interactions at home found variability in how much caregivers spoke to children. Infants who experienced more child-directed speech became more efficient at processing familiar words in real-time and had larger vocabularies by age 24 months, while overheard speech was unrelated to vocabulary outcomes. Increased child-directed speech strengthened infants' language processing skills which facilitated greater language growth and vocabulary.

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    The study explored how the amount of speech directed at infants from Spanish-speaking families with low socioeconomic status influenced language processing development and vocabulary learning. Recordings of parent-infant interactions at home found variability in how much caregivers spoke to children. Infants who experienced more child-directed speech became more efficient at processing familiar words in real-time and had larger vocabularies by age 24 months, while overheard speech was unrelated to vocabulary outcomes. Increased child-directed speech strengthened infants' language processing skills which facilitated greater language growth and vocabulary.

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    The study explored how the amount of speech directed at infants from Spanish-speaking families with low socioeconomic status influenced language processing development and vocabulary learning. Recordings of parent-infant interactions at home found variability in how much caregivers spoke to children. Infants who experienced more child-directed speech became more efficient at processing familiar words in real-time and had larger vocabularies by age 24 months, while overheard speech was unrelated to vocabulary outcomes. Increased child-directed speech strengthened infants' language processing skills which facilitated greater language growth and vocabulary.

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    SULIT, MA. CAMILLE C.

    | BS ARCHITECTURE V-4
    2PPSYC1013 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Talking to Children Matters: Early Language Experience


    Strengthens Processing and Builds Vocabulary
    by Adriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald
    Department of Psychology, Stanford University
    SUMMARY
    Infants differ substantially in their rates of language growth, and slow growth
    predicts later academic difficulties. In this study, we explored how the amount of
    speech directed to infants in Spanish-speaking families low in socioeconomic
    status influenced the development of children’s skill in real-time language
    processing and vocabulary learning. All day recordings of parent-infant
    interactions at home revealed striking variability among families in how much
    speech caregivers addressed to their child. Infants who experienced more child-
    directed speech became more efficient in processing familiar words in real time
    and had larger expressive vocabularies by the age of 24 months, although speech
    simply overheard by the child was unrelated to vocabulary outcomes. Mediation
    analyses showed that the effect of child-directed speech on expressive
    vocabulary was explained by infants’ language-processing efficiency, which
    suggests that richer language experience strengthens processing skills that
    facilitate language growth.

    How will I relate the article to our lesson?


    The article above tackles the cognitive type of human development. Cognitive
    development involves the mental abilities of an individual and its learning capacity.
    According to Jean Piaget -- Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development
    – children are neither deficient nor inferior in intelligence and is an active constructor of
    knowledge. As for infants, while they all belong to the same age group, the rates of their
    language growth differs. This is greatly affected by the influence everyday interactions
    with their parents or other members of the family. Infants belong to the stage of Cognitive
    Development called Sensorimotor Stage wherein children explore and gain knowledge of
    the world primarily through their senses and motor activities.

    How am I beginning to think differently?


    It’s no surprise that a children’s upbringing and/or environment is what makes him/her.
    However, after attending General Psychology classes and learning more about human
    mental processes, I came to an understanding that things do not just happen because a
    certain individual chose to. While the previous statement is also true, I have also found
    out that children, infants specifically, are almost like a clean slate. Relating it to Jean
    Piaget’s theories, human cognition is an adaptive ability that facilitates our survival. As
    newborns, children struggles to learn and comprehend what is around them until they
    understand how everything works. The article then suggests that there is actually an
    explanation how baby talk works. Child-directed speech helps them enhance their
    vocabulary and strengthens processing skills that facilitate language growth.

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