Effects of socio-communicative factor in language development: Caregiver-led conversational turn-taking promotes long-term word acquisition (언어 발달에서 사회적 의사소통 요인의 역할: 양육자가 주도한 대화 주고받기 경험의 장기적 어휘 습득 촉진)

Jeonghee Mun (문정희); Youngon Choi (최영은)

doi:10.35574/KJDP.2025.6.38.2.1

Effects of socio-communicative factor in language development: Caregiver-led conversational turn-taking promotes long-term word acquisition

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THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2025, 38(2), pp.1~18
DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2025.6.38.2.1
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Received : April 15, 2025
Accepted : May 23, 2025
Published : June 15, 2025

Jeonghee Mun ¹, Youngon Choi ¹

¹중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

Exposure to conversational turn-taking is a key predictor of individual differences in language development. However, studies examining its role in Korean-learning infants remain limited, with previous research relying mostly on short-term designs and automatized measurements. This study manually measured the frequency of turn-taking in interactions between 14- to 20-month-old Korean infants and their mothers. It also categorized whether the turn-taking was mother- or infant-initiated to systematically re-examine its short- and long-term effects of turn-taking on expressive vocabulary acquisition. Results show that the turn-taking frequency significantly predicted vocabulary acquisition at the time of participation and at 54 months. Additionally, turn-taking fully mediated the relationship between socioeconomic status and vocabulary development. Mother-initiated turn-taking had a significant long-term impact, underscoring the importance of caregiver-led conversations in early language acquisition.

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Language development, Conversational turn-taking, Socio-communicative factor, mediation. longitudinal study

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