Q&A: language development in infants|journal articles on language development?

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language development in infants–: journal articles on language development?
I’m trying to find empirical studies on how gender,parents/adults and biology influence language development in infants or early childhood. All articles must be peer reviewed journal articles no earlier than 2004.

thanks.

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Answer by d d
use “jstor” or some other archive searching device that is most likely supplied by your college through a link in their libraries web site.

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Question–: Having the TV on constantly in a home with infants and toddlers?
I saw this quote on yahoo news, “Having the television on constantly in a household with infants and toddlers is bad for brain and language development because it reduces the number of words the kids hear and say, a study showed Monday.”

Personally, we don’t watch TV as a matter of personal choice but I am wondering how people who do keep the TV on for many hours a day feel about this.

Also I read years ago that watching TV when a child is too young can cause ADD and a school age child that watches excessive TV is the leading cause of ADD in this age group.

The following is the answer: (Hint: The reader is not the correct identification.)

Answer by Rhianna G
Our tv is on all day long, its normally on country music videos. If its not then its on some sort of children show on PBS. While my daughter watches it sometimes its mostly just background sound for us. She is very smart and speaks perfectly fine. If we do watch we watch tv together and talk about whats going on.

Answer by Lydia
Yes, it’s awful – because even if they aren’t watching it, it’s background noise and is distracting.
Children need interaction with humans instead, for their learning and development!

Answer by Emily
Live and let live. It’s common knowledge that lots of TV isn’t good for children. But there are new studies out every 5 seconds. Everything in moderation, I say.

Answer by Not A Supermum!
While I think there is truth in those theories – I think that applies more to children who watch tv all day, not necessarily a household that has the tv on all day (on music channels or non-children’s channels). My tv is on a lot of the day (but no-where near all day) but my children only watch a little and spend more of the time spending one-on-one time with me or their dad.
If children watch cartoons all day, it is very likely to lead to other problems.

Answer by Tartism Sucks (as do Y!A Prudes)
When I am home from work, My TV is on all day! But…. Watching it is another story.
I always wished i had a kid that would watch more than they do! (too active)
But, i think those stats are for the dead head kids that sit and stare at a TV set all day.
But anyway who cares what stats or anyone says. I need the Background noise!

Answer by iamblessed
i keep my on all the time like the noise
my kids are good
i am ok and we had the tv on
i think ‘they”over read everything

Answer by Inked Mama to my Beautiful Boy
Well firstly I never pay any attention to studies unless they show the processes and experiments they used to come to their conclusions. I don’t like being given a couple of sentences and having to accept it as fact, there are so many conflicting “studies” out there that it’s tough to know what, if anything, to believe unless they can demonstrate to me what they’re concluding. Is there any more to that research that you haven’t shown here?

Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t think sitting and watching TV all day could be a good thing. I’m not a child psychologist so I can’t say why. I just don’t feel it would be healthy. However I do have the TV in one room on most of the time we’re indoors. I live with my father at the moment and the house is decent sized and there are multiple rooms downstairs, and my son (18 months) and I are moving about between them any time we’re indoors, not just sitting in one place. If we only had one lounge room I wouldn’t have it on all the time, and if my son paid too much attention to it for extended periods of time I’d switch it off. But I’m always with my son and I see what he’s doing at all times, and he only actually stops and watches something maybe a couple of times a day. I think it’s quite sweet, all the programmes are nonsense to me (cBeebies (UK) – cartoons mostly aimed at ‘audiences’ under the age of 2), and it’s nice to realise that my son has developed a couple of favourites and remembers them and stops and watches them if they come on. He probably gets no more than 20 minutes of TV watching time a day. But as I said, I always have it on in the background just because I hate rattling around alone in a quiet house, and as long as he pays limited attention to it I don’t see a problem with that. The only times it really goes off are during nap time or when we go out or when we have sing and dance hour in the afternoon. And yes, I do contribute to the electricity bill

Answer by alicialions
Too much tv or anything is not good that is for sure…but the real leading cause of ADD is bad parenting and the medical inddustry being at a loss to tell those parents to start having rules and following through and teaching their kids some respect.

Answer by hendsbeex
Although I respect the opinions of many on here, I think these reports are BS. They tell us what they want us to hear. My TV is on roughly 75% of the day. My son is very active, will pause on occasions to watch, but on the most part he is playing with my wife or myself. His speech is second to none. He is not quite 3 years old, and you can quite easily have a conversation with him regarding what he did during the day, had for lunch, etc.

Answer by Moon
I heard that statement too. I hardly ever watched tv but I was one to constantly keep it on for background noise. When I heard that statement, the tv went off.

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SAINT BRIGID: THE MARY OF THE GAEL
Until the past half-century, every Irish family had a Patrick and a Brigid. These were the most common names in Ireland throughout the Penal days, when the race bound itself to its persecuted tradition by constantly invoking Patrick, Brigid, and Columcille. Nowadays, Patrick is the second most common man’s name in Ireland. The late Rev. John Woulfe, author of the standard work on Irish names and surnames analysed a baptismal list of 1000 children in County Limerick. In this list, there were 94 Johns and 65 Patricks, with Michael as the third commonest name (51), and William as the fourth (43); Colum did not appear at all, since the name of the third Irish Patron long since has fallen into neglect, save in Columcille’s native Donegal.

The list, in respect of girls’ names, showed Mary 150 times, for our Lady’s sacred name is borne by the eldest girl in virtually every family. Margaret came next (75), then Catherine (45), Nora (40), Johanna or Siobhan (35), and Brigid only sixth, with 30 baptisms, the same number as Julia, and only five more than Elizabeth and Ellen, which numbered 25 each.

The decline in the popularity of the long-beloved name of Brigid is due to the corruption of the name into the undignified Biddy in the anglicised nineteenth century. In times when what we call the stage—Irish tradition was in vogue, "Irish Paddy" and "Irish Biddy" were figures of fun, symbols used in anti-Irish caricatures by the ill-bred, and it needed the Gaelic revival of the present century to restore the associations of the name which once stood in such high honour.

Another circumstance told against the Irish name. In the Penal age and far into the past century, the English-speaking world knew virtually nothing of the saint, whose written records were locked up in the unprinted, forgotten old Gaelic books, and whose traditional memory was cherished only in the secret world of Gaelic speech, by a race that lacked schools, printing press, political freedom, and worldly respect. Accordingly, when there was any mention of St. Brigid in the English-speaking world, it was common to confuse her with St. Bridget of Sweden, who died in 1373; it often happened, for example, that people seeking holy pictures of St. Brigid were supplied from Germany with images of the Scandinavian saint through the ignorance, in continental centres of ecclesiastical art, of the existence of any other saint of such a name. The Scandinavian spelling came into vogue; and Irish children were called Bridget, when the intention was to name them after Brigid. Apparently, the pronunciation of Bridget with a sound came in with the Swedish spelling. It is not agreeable, and the beauty of the Irish name suffered.

The Irish name ought to be pronounced with a hard ; that is, as "Brigg-id," not as "Bridjit." In its most ancient form, the name was spelt with a final t, Brigit, and was Latinised Brigitta. From an early time, however, and down the ages, it was spelt Brigid; Latin form, Brigida. However, the complicated matter of orthography is not ended at this point; for in Modern Gaelic—the language as spoken for the past seven centuries—the becomes silent, and the name usually is spelt in Gaelic Brighid ( Brighde), with a pronunciation "Bree-id." From this it will be seen how Kilbride and St. Bride’s are derived.

Accordingly, in writing English we adhere to Brigid as the correct historic and literary form. Let us pronounce it "Briggid," although we often hear people nowadays, under the influence of the revived Irish language, saying "Breeid," which is, as we have shown, fully permissible. In Munster, the pronunciation "Bride" has come into use, and often the name is written Bride, instead of Brigid. Since this development is native and natural, we can make no objection to it, and would be glad to find children christened Bride as well as Brigid, whenever a due respect for our saint is recovered. The colloquial pet form is not the ugly Biddy, but Bridie.

Before we leave the history of the name, something must be said of its origin. Most scholars hold that the saint was given the name of Brigit from a goddess in Celtic mythology, who was so named, and they interpret the word as signifying Fiery Arrow. Over a thousand years ago, a Gaelic glossary was written, in which it was explained that Brigit was daughter of the Dagda (the Celtic Zeus), and was goddess of the poets, From this, writers of the Evolutionary school hold that the Christian saint was no other than the pagan goddess transmogrified. "Brigit is one of the Irish saints as to whose relationship with a pagan divinity there can be no doubt," writes one great scholar,[2] whom we are surprised to find taking this unorthodox view. "Certain aspects of her character and career must be based on the myth or the ritual of a goddess, probably a goddess associated with a fire cult"—alluding to the perpetual fire which was kept burning in St. Brigid’s Abbey at Kildare. In support of the Evolutionary theory, its champions point out that very little is told of the Christian abbess to account for the wide cult.

Our answer is simple. We say that Brigit was a name among the pagans, and we accept its interpretation as Fiery Arrow. We think that our saint may have received the name that originated with a pagan goddess just as Pope Pius XI as a child received the name of Achille, from the pagan hero Achilles. If some alien scholar in distant future ages should discover that the pope famed for his intrepidity bore the name of an intrepid warrior of the Greeks, and should say that the heroic pope was a Christian development of a heathen myth, we would consider that just as reasonable as the theory which makes the great nun who carried on Patrick’s holy Catholic work a mere development of a poetic myth.

As to the scantiness of the records of St. Brigid’s life and work, we shall see that certain cataclysms in history interrupted our records; and apart from that, we cite two modern examples. The mighty Santa Teresa of Spain, whom a great nation honours as its second patron, was a nun, like Brigid, whose life was relatively uneventful, but whose influence and whose cult are prodigious. If Santa Teresa had not written her own autobiography and her mystical , we would know almost as little of her life-story as of Brigid’s. Again, that little Carmelite nun, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who died when scarcely out of her girlhood at Lisieux in our own days, was she not "the Star of the Pontificate" to Pius XI, and has she not won a world-wide cult like Brigid?—yet the acts and deeds of her life could be related in half a chapter. The Catholic mind, therefore, finds no difficulty in realising that a soul may make history and move the world, though leaving little to tell concerning its passage through this world. Our Lady’s own life on earth was almost wholly hidden.

Finally, ere we pass from Brigid’s name to Brigid’s story, we must speak of her title, "the Mary of the Gael." This is attached to her in the most ancient records. It can be traced back to her own century, when the legend arose that a Druid prophesied before her birth that she should be "another Mary, mother of the great Lord." It is attached to her, down the ages, in native writings.

Here, once again, we are met by the misinterpretations that abound in authors who lack the Catholic way of thinking, and who devise fantastic scientific explanations for things that we find simple. Some of these writers tell us that the old Irish lacked devotion to the Blessed Virgin, but created, as it were, a mental substitute for her in Brigid. They support this theory by citing an old fable in which Brigid is supposed to have been nurse to the Infant Jesus. For us, the fable, which makes Brigid present at Bethlehem five hundred years before her own birth, is a delightful fancy, springing from some poetic mind; but we do not regard our ancestors as fools who believed in impossibilities. We dismiss an argument that could detain nobody save an untraditional evolutionary theorist, and we return to fact.

Examining fact, we discover that the olden Gaels reverenced our Lady so devoutly that they did not give her name to their girl children any more than they would give the name of Jesus to boys. They used such names as Maol-Iosa and Giolla-Iosa, signifying servant of Jesus, and they used Maol-Muire ("Myles") and Giolla Muire (Gilmurry), signifying Mary’s servant. In modern times, when Mary came into common use and at last, as we have noted, exceeded all other names in the number of baptisms, the traditional reluctance of the Gael to make common use of a sacred name expressed itself in the Irish-speaking districts thus: that girls named Mary in English were called Maire ("Maurya") in Irish, but our Lady never was called Maire; instead, the ancient form Muire ("Mwirra") was preserved, to designate her, and her alone.[3]

Now consider what is implied by the former popularity of the name Brigid, far outnumbering Mary, among Irish girls and women, and the description of Brigid as the Mary of the Gael. The phrase puzzles those alien minds which do not know, from the Catholic life, what Mary means to the inner life of the Church. To the mind which thinks traditionally, the phrase is eloquent and illuminating. It could rise only among people who were devoted to the Mother of God. We realise at once that as the old Irish and the Gaels down the ages so reverenced the Mother of the Redeemer that they classed her name with the Holy Name, not to be used freely, so they regarded Brigid, the first Irish nun and the mightiest exemplar of Christian womanhood among their saints, as being the exponent of the virtues and glories of Mary—that is, we may say, as our Lady’s representative, the Irishwoman who was nearest to her, truest to her, most like her.

The phrase means that, or it means nothing, and nobody with the Catholic way of thinking ever was puzzled by it. As holy women everywhere aspire to resemble Mary and as we recognise our Lady’s ways in the sanctified souls of the cloister, so the Gaels saw in Brigid the likeness of our Lady, and called this remarkable Child of Mary, "the Mary of the Gael."

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