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  • Child Language Acquisition
  • Intersensory Perception

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  • Parental factors like well-being and language input quality are known predictors of child language development.
  • Recent research highlights the role of child intersensory processing (e.g., face-voice integration) in language development.
  • The interplay between parental factors and child intersensory skills remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationships between parent well-being, quality of language input, and child intersensory face-voice processing.
  • To examine how child intersensory processing mediates the link between parental factors and child language skills.
  • To assess these associations in 36-month-old children.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study involving 97 toddlers (36 months old).
  • Assessment of parent well-being and quality of language input.
  • Measurement of child intersensory face-voice matching abilities.
  • Evaluation of child expressive and receptive vocabulary.

Main Results:

  • Higher parent well-being and better quality of language input were associated with enhanced child intersensory face-voice matching.
  • Child intersensory face-voice matching significantly predicted expressive vocabulary size.
  • The predictive link was specific to expressive, not receptive, vocabulary.

Conclusions:

  • Parental factors significantly contribute to the development of children's intersensory face-voice processing skills.
  • Child intersensory face-voice matching serves as a crucial link between parental contributions and early expressive language development.
  • These findings underscore the importance of supporting parent well-being and enriching language environments for optimal child language outcomes.