Virginia Marchman
@vmarchman.bsky.social
Semi-retired language development researcher at Stanford Psych and Stanford School of Medicine, MacArthur-Bates CDI Advisory Board, baseball fan
This in-depth picture of naturally-occurring child-directed speech highlights both general patterns and variation in how, how much, and when caregivers talk with their 2-year-old children. Available here: doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Time to Talk: Variability in Caregiver‐Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities Sampled From Daylong Recordings
Children learn language through interactions with others. To document variation in how caregivers engage verbally with their 2-year-old children, we sampled six 10-min segments of dense child-directe...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This in-depth picture of naturally-occurring child-directed speech highlights both general patterns and variation in how, how much, and when caregivers talk with their 2-year-old children. Available here: doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Talkative activities were sometimes booksharing or playing, but mostly, they were “must-do” things like cooking or laundry! Each activity was linked to a positive feature of speech, like longer sentences or different words. Also, some caregivers talked more than others, no matter what they did!
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Talkative activities were sometimes booksharing or playing, but mostly, they were “must-do” things like cooking or laundry! Each activity was linked to a positive feature of speech, like longer sentences or different words. Also, some caregivers talked more than others, no matter what they did!
Great work and a great team! 😁
October 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great work and a great team! 😁
Reposted by Virginia Marchman
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
Reposted by Virginia Marchman
Not just in Los Angeles.
June 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Not just in Los Angeles.