Many researchers study international adoption. However, to date, no systematic analysis
has been conducted to characterize this field in the social sciences, in terms of disciplinary …

Joint Attention (JA) in parent–infant interaction has been demonstrated to contribute to
infants' language outcomes. A limited number of studies have investigated the …

The current study investigates Joint Attention (JA) characteristics (duration, frequency,
source of initiation, type of JA, agent of termination, missed and unsuccessful episodes) in …

There is a vast amount of literature on the topic of adoption, yet it is difficult to find a central
source of the most contemporary scholarship from a variety of disciplines. The primary …

Pierce et al.(2017) have proposed that variations in the timing, quality and quantity of
language input during the earliest stages of development are related to variations in the …

Purpose. The purpose of this research is, based on the results of our empirical research, to
determine the psycholinguistic paradigms of the Medical staff–Patients communicative …

A battery of standardized language tests and control measures was administered to three
groups of at-risk language learners–internationally adopted children, deaf children with …

This study aims to predict distress tolerance based on the communication components of
original family among divorced and non-divorced women. The study is correlational. The …

Joint attention, or sharing attention with another individual about an object or event, is a
critical behaviour that emerges in pre-linguistic infants and predicts later language abilities …

Drawing together linguists' and psychologists' approaches to the study of bilingualism, this
innovative and engaging volume provides students with a firm grounding in bilingual …