Infant Vocalizations at the First Year of Life Predict Speech Development at 2 - 7 Years: Longitudinal Study

Elena E. Lyakso, Olga V. Frolova, Aleksey S. Grigorev

Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2014.512154                

Abstract

The authors present the results of a 7-year longitudinal study of 10 Russian children beginning at birth up to 7 years old. The relationships among vowels diverse, babbling, imitative activity during the first year of a child’s life, the amount of the first words at the age of 12 months, stressed vowels duration and pitch variation in mother speech addressed to children of the first year of life, the risk of development of birth, were investigated as predictors of speech development in 2 - 7 years. The results are shown that those characteristics predicted complexity of replica in dialogues, compound phrases using, ability to retell, and reading skills formation. The risk of development at birth manifested in EEG-rhythm age immaturity in 7 years that was reflected in speech skills and reading comprehension.

Keywords

Infant’s Vocalizations, Child Speech, Longitudinal Study, Risk of Development at Birth

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	Adams, J., Treiman, R., & Pressley, M. (1998). Reading, Writing, and Literacy. In I. E. Sigel, & K. A. Renninger (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology: Child Psychology in Practice (pp. 275-355). New York: Wiley.
[2]	Allely, C. S., Purves, D., McConnachie, A., Marwick, H., Johnson P., Doolin O., Puckering C., Golding J., Gillberg C., & Wilson, P. (2013). Parent-Infant Vocalizations at 12 Months Predict Psychopathology at 7 Years. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 985-993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.11.024
[3]	Chistovich, I., Reiter, J., & Shapiro, Y. (2000). Rukovodstvo po Ocenke Razvitiya Mladencev do 16 Mesyacev na Osnove Rusificirovannoy Shkaly KID (Assessment of Babies Development up to the Age of 16 Months on the Basis of the Russified KID-Scale). Saint-Petersburg, Russia: Saint-Petersburg Institute of Early Intervention.
[4]	Das, J. P., Janzen, T., & Georgiou, G. K. (2007). Correlates of Canadian Native Children’s Reading Performance: From Cognitive Styles to Cognitive Processes. Journal of School Psychology, 45, 589-602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2007.06.004
[5]	De Thorme, L. S., Petrill, S. A., Schatcheneider, C., & Cutting, L. (2010). Conversational Language Use as a Predictor of Early Reading Development: Language History as a Moderating Variable. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 209-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0060)
[6]	Fields, M. V., & Spangler, K. L. (2000). Let’s Begin Reading Right: A Developmental Approach to Beginning Literacy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.
[7]	Frolova, O. V., & Lyakso, E. E. (2008). Vocal-Speech Imitation Developmental Changes in Russian Mother-Child Dyads and Orphans. Proceedings from the XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, 28 July-1 August 2008, 2-15.
[8]	Gessel, A., & Ames, L. (1987). The Development of Handedness. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 70, 155-175.
[9]	ICD-10 Scale (2014) http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/P00-P96/P90-P96/P91-/P91.8
[10]	IPA. http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org
[11]	Johnson, S., & Marlow, N. (2011). Preterm Birth and Childhood Psychiatric Disorders. Pediatric Research, 69, 11R-18R. http://dx.doi.org/10.1203/PDR.0b013e318212faa0
[12]	Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition. Neuron, 67, 713-727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.038
[13]	Law, J., & Plunkett, C. (2009). EPPI-Centre Report: The Interaction between Behaviour and Speech and Language Difficulties: Does Intervention for One Affect Outcomes in the Other? London: EPPI-Centre Social Science Research Unit Institute of Education University of London.
[14]	Leppanen, P. H. T., Hamalainen, J. A., Guttorm, T. K., Eklund, K. M., Salminen, H., Tanskanen, A. et al. (2011). Infant Brain Responses Associated with Reading-Related Skills before School and at School Age. Clinical Neurophysiology, 42, 35-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucli.2011.08.005
[15]	Lyakso, E. (2007). Early Speech Development in Children Developing Normally and Children with Prenatal and Early Postnatal Disorders: A Longitudinal Study. Proceedings of the Word Congress Prenatal Child and Society. Role of Prenatal Psychology in Obstetrics, Neonatology, Psychotherapy, Psychology and Sociology, Moscow, 20-24 May 2007, 186-188.
[16]	Lyakso, E., Frolova, O., Smirnov, A., Kurazova, A., & Grigorev, A. (2012). Speech Development Level of Children at the Stage of Reading Skills Formation. Psychology Journal, 33, 73-87. (in Russian)
[17]	Lyakso, E., & Gromova, A. (2005). The Acoustic Characteristics of Russian Vowels in Children of 4 and 5 Years of Age. Psychology of Language and Communication, 9, 5-14.
[18]	Lyakso, E., Gromova, A., Frolova, O., & Romanova, O. (2005). Acoustic Aspect of the Formation of Speech in Children in the Third Year of Life. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 35, 573-583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11055-005-0096-z
[19]	Lyakso, E. (2008). Estimation of Early Speech and Cognitive Development: Development and Testing of the Inventory. In T. N. Ushakova (Ed.), Child’s Speech-Problems and Solutions (pp. 318-362). Moscow: Psychology Institute, RAS.
[20]	Lyakso, E., Bednaya, E., & Grigorev, A. (2013). Auditory and Spectrographic Analysis of the Words of 2-8 Years-Old Russian Children. In M. Zelezny, I. Habernal, & A. Ronzhin (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 54-61). New York: Springer Verlag.
[21]	Lyakso, E. Е., Ushakova, T. N., Frolova, O. V., Kurazhova, A. V., Bednaya, E. D., Gaikova, J. S., Grigoriev, A. S., Soloviev, A. N., & Ostrouchov, A. V. (2010). Russian Children’s Vocabulary, Speech Imitation and Reading Skills Mastery. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77, 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.06.215
[22]	Lyytinen, H., Erskine, J., Kujala, J., Ojanen, E., & Richardson, U. (2009). In Search of a Science-Based Application: A Learning Tool for Reading Acquisition. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 50, 668-675. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00791.x
[23]	McEwen, F., Happe, F., Bolton, P., Rijsdijk, F., & Ronald, A. (2007). Origins of Individual Differences in Imitation: Links with Language, Pretend Play, and Socially Insightful Behavior in Two-Year-Old Twins. Child Development, 78, 474-492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01010.x
[24]	Moore, J. K. (2002). Maturation of Human Auditory Cortex: Implication for Speech Perception. Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 189, 7-10.
[25]	Morales, M., Mundy, P., Delgado, C. E. F., Yale, M., Messinger, D., Neal, R., & Schwartz, H. K. (2000). Responding to Joint Attention across the 6- through 24-Month Age Period and Early Language Acquisition. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 21, 283-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0193-3973(99)00040-4
[26]	Muter, V., Hulme, C., Snowling, M. J., & Stevenson, J. (2004). Phonemes, Rimes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Skills as Foundations of Early Reading Development: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study. Developmental Psychology, 40, 665-681. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.40.5.665
[27]	Ohgi, S., Loo, K. K., & Mizuike, C. (2010). Frontal Brain Activation in Young Children during Picture Book Reading with Their Mothers. Acta Paediatrica, 99, 225-229.
[28]	Pan, B. A., Rowe, M. L., Singer J. D., & Snow C. E. (2005). Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families. Journal of Child Development, 76, 763-782.
[29]	Pols, L. C. W., Lyakso, E., van der Stelt, J. M., Wempe, T. G., & Zajdó, K. (2006). Vowel Data of Early Speech Development in Several Languages. Multiling. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/ml06/ml06_010.html
[30]	Raschle, N. M., Zuk, J., & Gaab, N. (2012). Functional Characteristics of Developmental Dyslexia in Left-Hemispheric Posterior Brain Regions Predate Reading Onset. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, 2156-2161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107721109
[31]	Silven, M. (2002). Something from Nothing. Early Interaction and Language Acquisition in Finnish Children: Cascading Effect from First Words to Reading? Ph.D. Thesis, Turku: Turin Yliopisto.
[32]	Smith, A. B., Locke, J. L., & Bennett, J. (2008). A Longitudinal Study of Speech Timing in Young Children Later Found to Have Reading Disability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 1300-1314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2008/06-0193)
[33]	Stoel-Gammon, C. (1989). Prespeech and Early Speech Development of Two Late Talkers. First Language, 9, 207-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014272378900900607
[34]	Storch, S. A., & Whitehurst, G. J. (2002). Oral Language and Code-Related Precursors to Reading: Evidence from a Longitudinal Structural Model. Developmental Psychology, 38, 934-947. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.38.6.934
[35]	Vasiliadis, H. M., Buka, S. L., Martin, L. T., & Gilman, S. E. (2010). Fetal Growth and the Lifetime Risk of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 1066-1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/da.20739
[36]	Vihman, M. M., DePolis, R. A., & Karen-Portnoy, T. (2009). A Dynamic Systems Approach to Babbling and Words. In E. Bavin (Ed.), Handbook of Child Language (pp. 163-182). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576164.010
[37]	Vorperian, H., & Kent, R. (2007). Vowel Acoustic Space Development in Children: A Synthesis of Acoustic and Anatomic Data. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 1510-1545. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2007/104)
[38]	Werker, J. F., & Tees, R. C. (2005). Speech Perception as a Window for Understanding Plasticity and Commitment in Language Systems of the Brain. Developmental Psychobiology, 46, 233-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.20060
[39]	Whitehurst, G. J., & Lonigan, C. J. (1998). Child Development and Emergent Literacy. Child Development, 69, 848-872. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06247.x