Mahlke et al (2026): during free play, parents' speech unsuccessful at leading infants' visual attn; mostly follows infants' attn both temporally & topically. Parental speech mainly object-focused for familiar objs, varied utterances for novel objs #Attention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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Successful coordination of infant attention and parent speech during free play supports infants' language development. Parents' responsive linguistic input reduces uncertainty in label-referent assoc...
