Janet Olson

Mothers' labeling responses to infants' gestures predict vocabulary outcomes

Janet Olson, Elise Frank Masur · Journal of Child Language · 2015 · 55 citations

Neurolinguistics, Language Development, Early Childhood Language +20

Infants' gestures influence mothers' provision of object, action and internal state labels

Janet Olson, Elise Frank Masur · Journal of Child Language · 2011 · 52 citations

Infants’ background television exposure during play: Negative relations to the quantity and quality of mothers’ speech and infants’ vocabulary acquisition

Elise Frank Masur, Valerie Flynn, Janet Olson · First Language · 2016 · 49 citations

Vocabulary Acquisition, Language Development, Background Television +28

Mothers’ and infants’ responses to their partners’ spontaneous action and vocal/verbal imitation

Elise Frank Masur, Janet Olson · Infant Behavior and Development · 2008 · 46 citations · Full text

Parental Care, Language Development, Infant Perception +20

Mothers respond differently to infants’ gestural versus nongestural communicative bids

Janet Olson, Elise Frank Masur · First Language · 2013 · 41 citations

Language Development, Atypical Language Development, Early Childhood Language +28