Jennifer A Schwade

Biographic Data

ID5761726
NAMEJennifer A Schwade
GIVEN NAMESJennifer A
FAMILY NAMESchwade
SIGNATURESCHWADE J A
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent

    Open AccessJulia A Venditti, Rachel Elkin et al.ARTICLEInfancy2025

    What environmental regularities support infant communicative learning from social interactions? We propose that infants allocate their attention toward and learn from external events that are contingent on their own behaviors. We tested the robustness of the influence of contingency on communicative learning by using a non‐biological stimulus, a remote‐controlled car, as the social partner. The car approached infants and produced a speech sound e…

  • The ecology of prelinguistic vocal learning

    Open AccessSteven L Elmlinger, Jennifer A Schwade et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2019

    What is the function of babbling in language learning? We examined the structure of parental speech as a function of contingency on infants’ non-cry prelinguistic vocalizations. We analyzed several acoustic and linguistic measures of caregivers’ speech. Contingent speech was less lexically diverse and shorter in utterance length than non-contingent speech. We also found that the lexical diversity of contingent parental speech only predicted infan…

  • The Role of Dyadic Coordination in Organizing Visual Attention in 5‐Month‐Old Infants

    Open AccessGina M Mason, Fiona Kirkpatrick et al.ARTICLEInfancy2019

    In human infants, the ability to share attention with others is facilitated by increases in attentional selectivity and focus. Differences in early attention have been associated with socio‐cognitive outcomes including language, yet the social mechanisms of attention organization in early infancy have only recently been considered. Here, we examined how social coordination between 5‐month‐old infants and caregivers relate to differences in infant…

  • Learning While Babbling

    Open AccessMichael Goldstein, Michael H Goldstein et al.ARTICLEInfancy2010

    Two studies illustrate the functional significance of a new category of prelinguistic vocalizing—object‐directed vocalizations (ODVs)—and show that these sounds are connected to learning about words and objects. Experiment 1 tested 12‐month‐old infants’ perceptual learning of objects that elicited ODVs. Fourteen infants’ vocalizations were recorded as they explored novel objects. Infants learned visual features of objects that elicited the most O…

  • Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning

    Open AccessMichael Goldstein, Michael H Goldstein et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2008

    Infants' prelinguistic vocalizations are rarely considered relevant for communicative development. As a result, there are few studies of mechanisms underlying developmental changes in prelinguistic vocal production. Here we report the first evidence that caregivers'speech to babbling infants provides crucial, real-time guidance to the development of prelinguistic vocalizations. Mothers of 9.5-month-old infants were instructed to provide models of…

  • Planning ahead

    Patricia J Bauer, Jennifer A Schwade et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1999Cited by: 8References: 1

    On tasks that require overcoming an obstacle along an existing path to a physically present goal, infants and very young children evince planning. In each of 3 experiments, the authors tested 21- and 27-month-olds' ability to construct a path to a mentally re-presented goal. Across experiments, the authors varied the number and type of cues to the solution provided. After exposure to the goal-state configuration of problems, both age groups showe…