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Mother’S Perceptions Of Their Personal Impact On Infant Language Development, Miranda Steinbeck
Mother’S Perceptions Of Their Personal Impact On Infant Language Development, Miranda Steinbeck
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
During the early months of a child’s language development, their ability to perceive and process language is very fluid and the language input they receive can have a large impact on their language later in life. From the beginning, children need to be able to differentiate the sounds of speech from the rest of the sounds that occur in their environment (Golinkoff, Can, Soderstrom, Hirsh-Pasek, 2015). In other words, children are exposed to the different sounds in their environment and they begin to pick up on the speech sounds, such as conversation-like interactions, with their parents (Golinkoff et al., 2015). …
Mouth Asymmetries During Infant Babbling: A Brain Lateralization Study, Cecilia Breazile
Mouth Asymmetries During Infant Babbling: A Brain Lateralization Study, Cecilia Breazile
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Although babbling is both prevalent and important in the process of language development, it could be argued that we still do not understand the basic nature of babbling. To further our understanding of the nature of babbling we attempted to find evidence for brain lateralization typical of adult speech acts during early babbling. This study examined infant mouth asymmetries during babbling sequences in search of evidence that babbling is an inherently linguistic act as indicated by the lateralization of the brain. Previously recorded videos of 12 infants, all 9 months of age, were examined, 29 images were captured, and a …