{"id":145,"date":"2023-08-17T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:41:03","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>We are not currently recruiting infants and parents for any language learning experiments. Thank you so much for your interest.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Para leer esta p\u00e1gina en Espa\u00f1ol, seleccione <a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"aqui\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/bienvenidos-al-laboratorio-de-b-a-b-y-de-usc\/\" target=\"_self\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>How do infants master the sounds of their language? Our research focuses on the role of social interactions between infants and parents during early development as infants are producing their first speech sounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-246 alignright\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; outline: #72777c solid 1px; resize: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/baby-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2023\/06\/Depositphotos_3740522_l-2015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>Infant learning about speech and language is embedded in a social feedback loop.\u00a0 Parents respond to babbling vocalizations, and the social reactions of parents can provide opportunities for infant learning.<\/p>\n<p>We want to know how babies use their parents\u2019 responses to learn how to communicate, so we can better understand the development of infants\u2019 language abilities.\u00a0 When studied as a form of social interaction, vocal precursors such as babbling constitute an important phase in the development of language.<\/p>\n<p>We are interested in inviting infants with <strong>typical hearing<\/strong>\u00a0as well as infants with\u00a0<strong>hearing loss<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you would like to learn more, please click on the pages on the top bar for more information about our research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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