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- Title
Child-Directed Speech Is Infrequent in a Forager-Farmer Population: A Time Allocation Study.
- Authors
Cristia, Alejandrina; Dupoux, Emmanuel; Gurven, Michael; Stieglitz, Jonathan
- Abstract
This article provides an estimation of how frequently, and from whom, children aged 0-11 years (Ns between 9 and 24) receive one-on-one verbal input among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. Analyses of systematic daytime behavioral observations reveal < 1 min per daylight hour is spent talking to children younger than 4 years of age, which is 4 times less than estimates for others present at the same time and place. Adults provide a majority of the input at 0-3 years of age but not afterward. When integrated with previous work, these results reveal large cross-cultural variation in the linguistic experiences provided to young children. Consideration of more diverse human populations is necessary to build generalizable theories of language acquisition.
- Subjects
FREQUENCY (Linguistics); HORTICULTURISTS; CHIMANE (South American people); VERBAL ability in children; LANGUAGE acquisition; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); CROSS-cultural differences; SPEECH perception in children
- Publication
Child Development, 2019, Vol 90, Issue 3, p759
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12974