The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16782816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anika van der Klis (0000-0001-5807-0667, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Caroline Junge (0000-0001-9876-8058, Utrecht University), Frans Adriaans (0000-0003-4342-7947, Utrecht University), René Kager (0000-0002-5811-839X, Utrecht University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | e12626-e12626 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Infancy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1525-0008 • E-ISSN: 1532-7078 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/infa.12626 |
| PMID | 39322979 |
| OpenAlex | W4402895968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 49 |
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures and vocalisations and caregivers' contingent responses predict later child vocabulary. Recent studies suggest that dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' responses are more robust predictors of children's vocabularies than these behaviors separately. Previous studies have not yet systematically compared different types of dyadic combinations. This study aimed to compare the predictive value of (a) frequencies of infants' behaviors (vocalisations, points, and shows + gives) regardless of caregivers' responses, (b) frequencies of infants' behaviors that elicited verbal responses, (c) frequencies of infants' behaviors that elicited multimodal responses, and (d) frequencies of infants' behaviors that did not elicit any responses from caregivers. We examined 114 caregiver‐infant dyads at 9–11 months and children's concurrent and longitudinal vocabulary outcomes at 2–4 years. We found that infants' points elicited a large proportion of verbal responses from caregivers which were related to children's later receptive vocabularies. We also found that only shows + gives that elicited caregivers' responses related to infants' concurrent gesture repertoires. In contrast, infants' behaviors that did not elicit responses negatively related to child vocabulary. The results highlight the importance of examining dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' responses during interactions when examining relations to children's vocabulary development
Developmental psychology · Gesture · Longitudinal study · Nonverbal communication · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Child and Animal Learning Development · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |