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What might influence the cultural differences in which parents interact with infants and thereby influence language development? Consider physical surroundings, resources, and a culture’s economy. How might outside factors influence parent–child interactions that support language development?

Infancy represents an important time for development that illustrates the interaction of biology, maturation, and the sociocultural context. Infants are equipped with early and rapidly emerging capacities to move and control their bodies, sense the world around them, and learn and think. However, interactions with their sociocultural context strengthen and modify infants’ capacities in every domain of development. In turn, babies’ actions influence elements of their sociocultural context. Infants’ active role in their own cognitive development cannot be denied. Infants also play an active role in their socioemotional development, as discussed in Chapter 6.