This National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award, funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075), supports a collaborative research project titled "The Temporal Structure of Infants' Everyday Behaviors: Language and Play Interactions in the Home Environment." The $145,840 project, awarded to the University of Oregon on September 1, 2023 with a completion date of August 31, 2026, investigates how the temporal structure of infant vocalizations, maternal speech, and infant object play contribute to the development of infant language skills in a diverse sample of over 150 families. The research aims to describe the temporal features of these everyday home behaviors, test associations between them, and examine how they relate to the sophistication of infant vocal productions. Findings from this work are expected to inspire new theories of language development and provide new tools for measuring temporal properties of human behaviors.
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