Leila Paavola-Ruotsalainen

Biographic Data

ID9273995
NAMELeila Paavola-Ruotsalainen
GIVEN NAMESLeila
FAMILY NAMEPaavola-Ruotsalainen
SIGNATUREPAAVOLA-RUOTSALAINEN L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oulu
ORCID0000-0001-5130-2525
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds

    Open AccessKatariina Rantalainen, Leila Paavola-Ruotsalainen et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2022

    This study investigated responsive and directive speech from 60 Finnish mothers to their 2-year-old children, as well as correlations with concurrent and later vocabulary. Possible gender differences with regard to both maternal speech and children’s vocabulary skills were considered. There were no gender differences in maternal utterance frequencies or in maternal utterance types. Girls scored statistically significantly higher in receptive and …

  • Maternal verbal responsiveness and directiveness

    Open AccessLeila Paavola-Ruotsalainen, JAANA LEHTOSAARI et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2018

    Maternal responsive and directive speech to children at ages 0;10 and 2;0 was investigated by applying a procedure first introduced by Flynn and Masur (2007) to a new language community (Finnish). The issues examined were consistency and stability over time, and also the role of responsiveness and directiveness in child linguistic development at 1;0 and 2;6. The measures of maternal speech from each age were used to predict the results of the sub…