2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.012
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Fathers’ repetition of words is coupled with children’s vocabularies

Abstract: Differences in vocabulary size among children can be explained in part by differences in parents' language input, but features of caregivers' input can be more or less beneficial depending on children's language abilities. The current study focused on a specific feature of infant-directed speech: parents' repetition of words across utterances. Although previous work with infants showed a positive relation between repetition and children's vocabulary, we predicted that this would not be the case later in develo… Show more

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“…In addition, fathers' Repeating-Imitating was positively linked to children's language production. That is, greater use of this mode was associated with higher levels of children's expressive language skills, which might function as a feedback mechanism consolidating and encouraging children's verbal expression (see also Schwab, Rowe, Cabrera, & Lew-Williams, 2018). Fathers' Repeating-Imitating may motivate children to actively take part in the conversation, reminiscent of findings about playfulness in father-child interactions and fathers' tendencies to provide fun and entertainment in children's lives (Ahnert et al, 2017;Lamb & Lewis, 2010).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In addition, fathers' Repeating-Imitating was positively linked to children's language production. That is, greater use of this mode was associated with higher levels of children's expressive language skills, which might function as a feedback mechanism consolidating and encouraging children's verbal expression (see also Schwab, Rowe, Cabrera, & Lew-Williams, 2018). Fathers' Repeating-Imitating may motivate children to actively take part in the conversation, reminiscent of findings about playfulness in father-child interactions and fathers' tendencies to provide fun and entertainment in children's lives (Ahnert et al, 2017;Lamb & Lewis, 2010).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, parent-child conversations are also shaped by the child's language behaviors, especially as children become older. Parents adapt their communication style depending on the child's language input (Kwon et al, 2013;Schwab et al, 2018). Future studies on the use of pragmatic modes should therefore include child language use to discern how much parents' and children's use of the modes are intertwined.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, naming events in the real world often contain structure, not just temporally (Smith et al, 2018) but also with respect to the spatial and linguistic contexts in which objects and words appear (Roy et al, 2015). Further, caregivers structure their naming events to include repetition and predictable regularities that direct attention to the right referent at the right time during naming (Chang & Deák, 2019;Schwab, Rowe, Cabrera, & Lew-Williams, 2018;Yu & Smith, 2017). For young children, predictable events, consistent actions, consistent locations, and consistent syntactic frames benefit word learning (Benitez & Smith, 2012;Eiteljoerge, Adam, Elsner, & Mani, 2019;Vlach & Sandhofer, 2011;Wojcik & Saffran, 2015).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, caregiver naming events often exhibit a "bursty" (massed) structure, in which a word will repeat across multiple conversational turns, but then not again for several hours or days. During caregiver-child play with objects, caregiver discourse that includes consecutive repetitions of object-labels has been linked with high-quality word learning moments as well as with children's vocabulary knowledge (Frank, Tenenbaum, & Fernald, 2013;Schwab, Rowe, Cabrera, & Lew-Williams, 2018;Suanda, Smith, & Yu, 2017). These studies suggest that in naturalistic language experiences, the distribution of naming events across time exhibits structure that children can exploit in learning new words.…”
Section: The Temporal Structure Of Naming Eventsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although infant language skills have been robustly linked to differential parenting behaviours in mothers (Schwab & Lew-Williams, 2016a), and vocabulary in particular has been specifically identified as an individual characteristic of children that influences parenting (Tamis-LeMonda, Briggs, McClowry, & Snow, 2009), they have rarely been explored as predictors of fathers' behaviours and as a measurable source of individual difference in input. In one of the only studies with fathers, fathers' repetition of words was coupled with their two-year-old's vocabulary (Schwab, Rowe, Cabrera, & Lew-Williams, 2018), such that fathers used less repetition of words with children who had larger vocabularies.…”
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