Researchers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile have found that the number of conversational turns a child experiences at 18 months of age predicts socioemotional competencies at 30 months of age. The paper, co-authored by Esteban Gómez Muzzio and Katherine Strasser and titled “Language and socioemotional development in early childhood: The role of conversational turns,” was published in the April 2021 issue of the journal Developmental Science. This marks the first peer-reviewed study to demonstrate a link between conversational turns and socioemotional development using LENA.
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