Why Is Infant Language Learning Facilitated by Parental Responsiveness?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 121-126

  Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^a   Kuchirko, Yana ^a   Song, Lulu ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

infancy; language development; parenting; responsiveness; word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898680111     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414522813     Document Type: Article

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