How do parents influence their children's language development?
What will be an ideal response?
There are multiple ways parents teach children language. For instance, parents who are responsive to their infants' vocalizations have infants with larger vocabularies when they reach language milestones. Parents use infant-directed speech (motherese) to attract the infants' attention and influence language development. Preverbal infants prefer listening to infant-directed speech and are primed to detect it. Infants actually prefer adults who use infant-directed speech. Infant-directed speech appears to facilitate language development by making sounds more exaggerated, helping infants hear and distinguish the different sounds and map sounds to meanings. It also exaggerates lip movements, helping infants to distinguish lip movements relevant to speech. It also teaches children how to take turns talking, models how to carry on a conversation, and helps babies learn to respond to emotional cues and link word meanings with familiar things. Parents use expansions, where they enrich the version of a child's statement and they recast children's sentences into new grammatical forms.
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