Jo Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 8903456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boystown National Institute for Communication Disorders in Children |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fine-tuning of utterance length to preverbal infants
The purpose of this study was to determine (1) whether mothers simplify their speech during the second half of the first year of development when infants begin to comprehend words and use gestures to communicate intentionally, and (2) whether individual differences in mothers' speech adjustments influence their infants' later language acquisition. The subjects for the study were 14 mother-infant pairs from a medically low risk sample who were fol…
Characterizing language impairment in children
This study compares expressive language samples from normal children ( n = 20) and language impaired children ( n = 9), matched for age and intellectual capacity, across a range of grammatical and lexical dimensions. The aims of the inquiry are to determine if it is possible to characterize language impairment (so far as it pertains to the carefully selected group of children in this study) using such dimensions, and in particular to see if the i…
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Characterizing language impairment in children
This study compares expressive language samples from normal children ( n = 20) and language impaired children ( n = 9), matched for age and intellectual capacity, across a range of grammatical and lexical dimensions. The aims of the inquiry are to determine if it is possible to characterize language impairment (so far as it pertains to the carefully selected group of children in this study) using such dimensions, and in particular to see if the i…
Fine-tuning of utterance length to preverbal infants
The purpose of this study was to determine (1) whether mothers simplify their speech during the second half of the first year of development when infants begin to comprehend words and use gestures to communicate intentionally, and (2) whether individual differences in mothers' speech adjustments influence their infants' later language acquisition. The subjects for the study were 14 mother-infant pairs from a medically low risk sample who were fol…
Developmental psychology (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Expressive language (1 work) · Gesture (1 work) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (1 work) · Inflection (1 work)