Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech

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dc.contributor.authorReimchen, Melissa
dc.contributor.authorSoderstrom, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-13T20:52:04Z
dc.date.available2019-08-13T20:52:04Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.submitted2019-08-13T20:12:39Zen
dc.description.abstractMaternal questions play a crucial role in early language acquisition by virtue of their special grammatical, prosodic and lexical forms, and their abundance in the input. Infants are able to discriminate questions from other sentence types and produce rising intonations in their own requests. This study examined whether caregiver questions were related to the quantity of infant vocalizations. Thirty-six infants aged 10 and 14 months participated in a laboratory play session with their mothers. In separate blocks, mothers were instructed to ask questions and to refrain from asking questions. Both block-level and utterance-level analyses found no evidence that maternal questions affected the amount of infant-response vocalizations. Mothers of 14-month-olds (but not 10-month-olds) tended to repeat questions.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Insight Development Grant 430-2011-0459 NSERC Discovery Grant 371683-2010en_US
dc.identifier.citationReimchen, M., & Soderstrom, M. (2017). Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech. Infant and Child Development, 26(3), 1-16.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/icd.1985
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/34069
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectmaternal questionsen_US
dc.subjectinfant vocal behaviouren_US
dc.subjectturn-takingen_US
dc.titleDo Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speechen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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