Audible television and decreased adult words, infant vocalizations, and conversational turns: A population-based study

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 554-558

  Christakis, Dimitri A ^a,b,c   Gilkerson, Jill ^d   Richards, Jeffrey A ^d   Zimmerman, Frederick J ^c   Garrison, Michelle M ^c   Xu, Dongxin ^d   Gray, Sharmistha ^d   Yapanel, Umit ^d  

^a Seattle Children's Center for Child Health Behavior and Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LENA Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND; TELEVISION; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TELEVISION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WASHINGTON;

EID: 66349131261     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.61     Document Type: Article

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