Journal ArticleDOI
Structure and strategy in learning to talk.
About:
This article is published in Monographs of The Society for Research in Child Development.The article was published on 1973-02-01. It has received 1711 citations till now.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype greater than environment effects.
Sandra Scarr,Kathleen McCartney +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of development in which experience is directed by genotypes is proposed, which adapts the 3 kinds of genotype-environment correlations proposed by Plomin, DeFries, and Loehlin in a developmental model used to explain results from studies of deprivation, intervention, twins, and families.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Cognition, joint attention and communicative Competence from 9 to 15 months of age
TL;DR: It was found that two measures--the amount of time infants spent in joint engagement with their mothers and the degree to which mothers used language that followed into their infant's focus of attention--predicted infants' earliest skills of gestural and linguistic communication.
Journal ArticleDOI
Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age
TL;DR: This study of 6-month-old infants from two countries, the United States and Sweden, shows that exposure to a specific language in the first half year of life alters infants' phonetic perception.
Journal ArticleDOI
Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective.
TL;DR: The emerging ability to comply with caregivers' dictates and to monitor one's own behavior accordingly signifies a major growth of early childhood as discussed by the authors, which leads to a new dimension in behavior.
Journal ArticleDOI
Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender.
TL;DR: This article examined the role of exposure to speech in children's early vocabulary growth and found a substantial relation between individual differences in vocabulary acquisition and variations in the amount that particular mothers speak to their children.