TY - CHAP
T1 - Language development in children's natural environments
T2 - People, places, and things
AU - Potter, Christine E.
AU - Lew-Williams, Casey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Our goal in this chapter is to describe young children's experiences with language by examining three domains—people, places, and things—that define and influence their language input. We highlight how features of each of these three domains could provide useful learning opportunities, as well as how differences in infants’ and toddlers’ experiences may affect their long-term language skills. However, we ultimately suggest that a full understanding of early environments must move beyond a focus on individual experiences and include the broader systems that shape young children's lives, including both tangible aspects of the environment, such as physical resources or locations, and more hidden factors, such as cultural considerations, community health, or economic constraints.
AB - Our goal in this chapter is to describe young children's experiences with language by examining three domains—people, places, and things—that define and influence their language input. We highlight how features of each of these three domains could provide useful learning opportunities, as well as how differences in infants’ and toddlers’ experiences may affect their long-term language skills. However, we ultimately suggest that a full understanding of early environments must move beyond a focus on individual experiences and include the broader systems that shape young children's lives, including both tangible aspects of the environment, such as physical resources or locations, and more hidden factors, such as cultural considerations, community health, or economic constraints.
KW - Individual differences
KW - Language development
KW - Language environment
KW - Systemic influences on children's lives
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U2 - 10.1016/bs.acdb.2024.07.004
DO - 10.1016/bs.acdb.2024.07.004
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 39260904
AN - SCOPUS:85199805619
SN - 9780443294242
T3 - Advances in Child Development and Behavior
SP - 200
EP - 235
BT - Advances in Child Development and Behavior
A2 - Lockman, Jeffrey J.
PB - Academic Press Inc.
ER -