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The impact of early social interactions on later language development in Spanish-English bilingual infants

Topic:

NA

Authors:

Ramírez-Esparza, García-Sierra, Kuhl

Journal/Publication:

Child Development

Year:

2017
Participant Age Range:
11 –
14 months

Sample Size:

25

Participant Language:

English, Spanish

Abstract:

This study tested the impact of child-directed language input on language development in Spanish–English bilingual infants (N = 25, 11- and 14-month-olds from the Seattle metropolitan area), across languages and independently for each language, controllin