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Language Style Matching in Preschooler–Adult Dyads: Associations with Dyad Familiarity and Children’s Age

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Language style matching (LSM) offers promise as an unobtrusive measure of synchrony between members of conversational dyads, but no studies have explored key questions related to LSM in developmental context. We examined LSM in young children’s ( N = 87, M age = 54.63 months) interactions with caregivers versus experimenters, and evaluated links between LSM and expressive vocabulary. LSM was significantly higher among caregiver–child than experimenter–child dyads and was positively associated with children’s expressive vocabulary.

Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology

DOI: 10.1177/0261927x19853317

Authors: Jessica L. Borelli, J. Zoe Klemfuss, Kristen Hollas

Institution: University of California, Irvine

Language: English

Topic: Language Development and Disorders

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Louisiana State University

OpenAlex ID: W2951061956

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Cites: 19

Cited by: 6

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