Joanna Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 5706078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tensions and transitions
This paper explores the impact of short immersive residentials at a radical institution for staff currently working in a mainstream one; in this instance, at Schumacher College for those at the nearby University of Plymouth (UK). Schumacher is an independent, alternative college offering residential courses in ‘transformative learning for sustainable living’. Using a qualitative research design, we explore the potential of a University staff Scho…
Gestures accompanying speech in specifically language-impaired children and their timing with speech
The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA), individually matched on age and nonverbal IQ, and in younger language-matched (LM) children. They were videotaped in two tasks, recounting a cartoon and describing their classroom. Three types of gestures were coded — iconics, deictics and beats — and the synchrony of the…
Book reading styles in dual‐parent and single‐mother families
Background. Whereas many studies have investigated quantitative aspects of book reading (frequency), few have examined qualitative aspects, especially in very young children and through direct observations of shared reading. Aim. The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in book‐reading styles between mothers and fathers and between mothers from single‐ and dual‐parent families. It also related types of parental verbalizatio…
A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language
The entire bodily gestural repertoire of four different infant groups was coded over the age period of 9 to 15 months. Two small samples of English-Canadian and Parisian-French infants were filmed every two weeks at home. A larger sample of Japanese infants was visited for 7 sessions and of Italian-Canadian infants for 4 sessions at 9 months and 15 months and again at 3 years. Language measures were collected for the last two groups. Increases in…
The Development of Communicative Gestures in Japanese Infants
Twelve Japanese infant-mother dyads were video-recorded at home in naturalistic interaction approximately every two weeks at varying ages between 9 and 14 months. Changes in their gestural repertoire that were similar to other groups studied previously were: an increase over sessions in Comment gestures, namely pointing but not showing, and a decrease in overall Request gestures, particularly reaching. Request gestures involving cognizance of age…
Mother-infant object involvement at 9 and 15 months
This study investigated maternal verbal and nonverbal behaviours during mother-infant object involvement episodes and their relation to infant cognitive level and productive vocabulary. Thirty mother-infant dyads were observed at home during 20 minutes of play at 9 months and 10 minutes of play at 15 months with two different toys. Developmental change in maternal scaffolding behaviours was sensitive to toy difficulty. Scaffolding at both ages wa…
The nature of the cognitive deficit in specific language impairment
Fifteen language-impaired children between 3 and 5 years and 15 non-impaired children matched on sex, age, and non-verbal IQ were compared on classification, symbolic play, spatial memory and verbal memory tasks. The two groups differed only on the verbal memory tasks, and it was particularly the verbal sequential memory task that predicted language production, both Reynell expressive scores and MLU from spontaneous speech samples. These findings…
Evaluating quantitative measures of grammatical complexity in spontaneous speech samples
The validity of MLU and a measure of syntactic complexity were tested against LARSP on spontaneous speech samples from 87 children, ranging in age from 1;6 to 4;9. Change in some LARSP clausal measures was found across MLU stages up to MLU 4.5. For the measure of syntactic complexity, no such ceiling was found for the clausal connectivity score in LARSP or for average clausal complexity in LARSP. Neither MLU nor the measure of syntactic complexit…
Patterns in babbling
Three Canadian–English infants and three Parisian–French infants were filmed bi-weekly for three to five months, from the age of 0;9 or 0;11 until 1;2, at home in naturalistic interaction with a parent. Their babbled utterances were transcribed phonetically and categorized according to consonant-type and vowel-type. The contexts for each utterance were described in terms of both specific and more general contextual categories. Observed frequencie…
Sound-meaning correspondences in babbling
The hypothesis that prelinguistic vocalizations contain extensive and systematic sound-meaning correspondences was examined through an exhaustive analysis of the babbling of five infants in their second year. These infants were videotaped over a period of three to six months at home and at a day-care centre. Their babbled utterances were transcribed phonetically and categorized according to consonant-type and vowel-type. Contexts for each utteran…
The effect of enactment upon sentence imitation in preschool children
Developmental change in the temporal course of tachistoscopic recognition
Tensions and transitions
This paper explores the impact of short immersive residentials at a radical institution for staff currently working in a mainstream one; in this instance, at Schumacher College for those at the nearby University of Plymouth (UK). Schumacher is an independent, alternative college offering residential courses in ‘transformative learning for sustainable living’. Using a qualitative research design, we explore the potential of a University staff Scho…
Book reading styles in dual‐parent and single‐mother families
Background. Whereas many studies have investigated quantitative aspects of book reading (frequency), few have examined qualitative aspects, especially in very young children and through direct observations of shared reading. Aim. The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in book‐reading styles between mothers and fathers and between mothers from single‐ and dual‐parent families. It also related types of parental verbalizatio…
Developmental change in the temporal course of tachistoscopic recognition
Sound-meaning correspondences in babbling
The hypothesis that prelinguistic vocalizations contain extensive and systematic sound-meaning correspondences was examined through an exhaustive analysis of the babbling of five infants in their second year. These infants were videotaped over a period of three to six months at home and at a day-care centre. Their babbled utterances were transcribed phonetically and categorized according to consonant-type and vowel-type. Contexts for each utteran…
The effect of enactment upon sentence imitation in preschool children
Patterns in babbling
Three Canadian–English infants and three Parisian–French infants were filmed bi-weekly for three to five months, from the age of 0;9 or 0;11 until 1;2, at home in naturalistic interaction with a parent. Their babbled utterances were transcribed phonetically and categorized according to consonant-type and vowel-type. The contexts for each utterance were described in terms of both specific and more general contextual categories. Observed frequencie…
Evaluating quantitative measures of grammatical complexity in spontaneous speech samples
The validity of MLU and a measure of syntactic complexity were tested against LARSP on spontaneous speech samples from 87 children, ranging in age from 1;6 to 4;9. Change in some LARSP clausal measures was found across MLU stages up to MLU 4.5. For the measure of syntactic complexity, no such ceiling was found for the clausal connectivity score in LARSP or for average clausal complexity in LARSP. Neither MLU nor the measure of syntactic complexit…
The nature of the cognitive deficit in specific language impairment
Fifteen language-impaired children between 3 and 5 years and 15 non-impaired children matched on sex, age, and non-verbal IQ were compared on classification, symbolic play, spatial memory and verbal memory tasks. The two groups differed only on the verbal memory tasks, and it was particularly the verbal sequential memory task that predicted language production, both Reynell expressive scores and MLU from spontaneous speech samples. These findings…
Mother-infant object involvement at 9 and 15 months
This study investigated maternal verbal and nonverbal behaviours during mother-infant object involvement episodes and their relation to infant cognitive level and productive vocabulary. Thirty mother-infant dyads were observed at home during 20 minutes of play at 9 months and 10 minutes of play at 15 months with two different toys. Developmental change in maternal scaffolding behaviours was sensitive to toy difficulty. Scaffolding at both ages wa…
The Development of Communicative Gestures in Japanese Infants
Twelve Japanese infant-mother dyads were video-recorded at home in naturalistic interaction approximately every two weeks at varying ages between 9 and 14 months. Changes in their gestural repertoire that were similar to other groups studied previously were: an increase over sessions in Comment gestures, namely pointing but not showing, and a decrease in overall Request gestures, particularly reaching. Request gestures involving cognizance of age…
A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language
The entire bodily gestural repertoire of four different infant groups was coded over the age period of 9 to 15 months. Two small samples of English-Canadian and Parisian-French infants were filmed every two weeks at home. A larger sample of Japanese infants was visited for 7 sessions and of Italian-Canadian infants for 4 sessions at 9 months and 15 months and again at 3 years. Language measures were collected for the last two groups. Increases in…
Book reading styles in dual‐parent and single‐mother families
Background. Whereas many studies have investigated quantitative aspects of book reading (frequency), few have examined qualitative aspects, especially in very young children and through direct observations of shared reading. Aim. The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in book‐reading styles between mothers and fathers and between mothers from single‐ and dual‐parent families. It also related types of parental verbalizatio…
Gestures accompanying speech in specifically language-impaired children and their timing with speech
The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA), individually matched on age and nonverbal IQ, and in younger language-matched (LM) children. They were videotaped in two tasks, recounting a cartoon and describing their classroom. Three types of gestures were coded — iconics, deictics and beats — and the synchrony of the…
Tensions and transitions
This paper explores the impact of short immersive residentials at a radical institution for staff currently working in a mainstream one; in this instance, at Schumacher College for those at the nearby University of Plymouth (UK). Schumacher is an independent, alternative college offering residential courses in ‘transformative learning for sustainable living’. Using a qualitative research design, we explore the potential of a University staff Scho…
Psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Language Development and Disorders (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Communication (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Gesture (3 works)