Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge
Abstract
Young children learn language at an incredible rate. Although children come prepared with powerful statistical-learning mechanisms, the statistics they encounter are also prepared for them: Children learn from caregivers motivated to communicate with them. How precisely do parents tune their speech to their children’s individual language knowledge? To answer this question, we asked parent–child pairs ( N = 41) to play a reference game in which...
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Title
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge
Published Date
Jul 1, 2021
Journal
Volume
32
Issue
7
Pages
975 - 984
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