The Impact of Word-Touch Synchrony on Early Language Development: Preliminary Findings From Korean Mother-Child Interactions.
Purpose: This study evaluates the impact of temporal synchrony between maternal touch and speech on children's early language development. It investigates whether the proportion of word-touch co-occurrence, overlap, and alignment precision in maternal input influences language acquisition, hypothesi...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 3337 - 3348 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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