The DOI matches its Crossref record; 7 of the 7 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Power in methods: language to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts
Open accessAbstract
Methods can powerfully affect conclusions about infant experiences and learning. Data from naturalistic observations may paint a very different picture of learning and development from those based on structured tasks, as illustrated in studies of infant walking, object permanence, intention understanding, and so forth. Using language as a model system, we compared the speech of 40 mothers to their 13‐month‐old infants during structured play and naturalistic home routines. The contrasting methods yielded unique portrayals of infant language experiences, while simultaneously underscoring cross‐situational correspondence at an individual level. Infants experienced substantially more total words and different words per minute during structured play than they did during naturalistic routines. Language input during structured play was consistently dense from minute to minute, whereas language during naturalistic routines showed striking fluctuations interspersed with silence. Despite these differences, infants' language experiences during structured play mirrored the peak language interactions infants experienced during naturalistic routines, and correlations between language inputs in the two conditions were strong. The implications of developmental methods for documenting the nature of experiences and individual differences are discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The origins of intelligence in children.
Piaget, J. (1952) · doi:10.1037/11494-000 · Cited by 10,687
Hoff, E. (2003) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00612 · Cited by 2,346
How social contexts support and shape language development☆
HOFF, E. (2006) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1016/j.dr.2005.11.002 · Cited by 1,853 · cited 2×
“…video- or audio-recorded as they go about their routines unconstrained by task, location, position, or materials (e.g., Bornstein, Putnick, Cote, Haynes, & Suwalsky, 2015; Hoff, 2003, 2006; Karasik, Adolph, & Tamis-LeMonda, 2012; Roy, 2009; Soderstrom & Wittebolle, 2013; Weisleder & Fernald, 2013).”
BackgroundTextons, the elements of texture perception, and their interactions
Julesz, B. (1981) · Nature · doi:10.1038/290091a0 · Cited by 1,703
Talking to Children Matters: Early Language Experience Strengthens Processing and Builds Vocabulary
Weisleder, A., & Fernald, A. (2013) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/0956797613488145 · Cited by 1,273
Landry, S. H., Smith, K. E., & Swank, P. R. (2006) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.42.4.627 · Cited by 950
Mothers' labeling responses to infants' gestures predict vocabulary outcomes
OLSON, J., & MASUR, E. F. (2015) · Journal of Child Language · doi:10.1017/s0305000914000828 · Cited by 52
Cited by
The Developing Infant Creates a Curriculum for Statistical Learning
Smith, L. B., Jayaraman, S., Clerkin, E., & Yu, C. (2018) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.02.004 · Cited by 299
Show, give, and point gestures across infancy differentially predict language development.
Choi, B., Wei, R., & Rowe, M. L. (2021) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/dev0001195 · Cited by 76
Lopez, L. D., Walle, E. A., Pretzer, G. M., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2020) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242232 · Cited by 58
Metadata
- Authors
- Tamis‐LeMonda, C. S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., Escobar, K., & Bornstein, M. H.
- Venue
- Developmental Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-01-16
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1363-755X (ISSN-L)
- 1467-7687
- OpenAlex
- W2576562787
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 34.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Power in methods: language to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/desc.12456
- The paper
- Tamis‐LeMonda, C. S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., Escobar, K., & Bornstein, M. H. (2017). Power in methods: language to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12456
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
