Recent Publications
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Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E. (2024). The synergistic effects of preterm birth and parent gender on the linguistic and interactive features of parent-infant conversations. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 67(3), 886-899. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00389
Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E. (2024). Parent-infant conversations are differentially associated with the development of Preterm- and Term-born infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 239, 105809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105809
Devrim Ataman, M., Quigley, J. & Nixon, E. (2024). Preterm toddlers’ joint attention episodes during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years. Infant Behaviour and Development, 74,101915, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101915
Quigley, J. & Nixon, E. (2023). Parent-toddler play talk: Toddler speech is differentially associated with paternal and maternal speech in interaction. First Language, 44(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231200436
Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E. (2023). Preterm Birth and Expressive Language Development across the First 5 Years of Life: A Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Path Analysis. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 65, 417-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.08.004
Conica, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2023). Talk outside the box: Parents’ decontextualised language during preschool years relates to child numeracy and literacy skills in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 236, 105746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105746
Conica, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2023). Interparental relationship satisfaction from nine months to nine years and children’s socioemotional competencies at nine years. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32, 2175-2186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02601-4
Conica, M., Kelly, L. Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2023). Father and toddler language during shared book reading with text-based and wordless picture books. Reading Research Quarterly, 58(4), 655-667. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.501
Conica, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2023). Domain-Specific and Cross-Domain Effects of the Home Literacy and Numeracy Environment at Three Years on Children’s Academic Competencies at Five and Nine Years. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1045–1058. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001515
Del Rosario, C., Nixon, E., Quigley, J., Whitehouse, A. J., & Maybery, M. T. (2023). Parent-child interaction and developmental outcomes in children with typical and elevated likelihood of autism. Infant Behavior and Development, 71, 101830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101830
Ataman-Devrim, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2023). Joint attention episodes during interactions with fathers but not mothers at age 2 years is associated with expressive language at 3 years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105569
Quigley, J., & Nixon, E. (2022). Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 58, 125-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.09.005
Kelly, L., Nixon, E. & Quigley, J. (2022). It's your turn: The dynamics of conversational turn-taking in father-child and mother-child interaction. Language Development Research, 2, (1), p37 - 68. https://doi.org/10.34842/840g-2297
O’Leary, N., Jairaj, C., Nixon, E., Quigley, J. & Keane, V. (2021). Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year. Infant Behaviour & Development, 64, 101605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101605
Nix, L., Nixon, E., Quigley, J., & Keane, V. (2021). Perinatal depression and children’s developmental outcomes at 2 years postpartum. Journal of Early Human Development, Volume 156, May 2021, 105346. doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105346
Nandy, A, Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2021). Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers’ adaptive functioning. Infant and Child Development, 30(3), http://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2226
Nandy A, Nixon E, Quigley, J. (2021). Communicative functions of parents’ child-directed speech across dyadic and triadic contexts. Journal of Child Language 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500092000080X
Quigley, J. & Nixon, E. (2020). Infant language predicts fathers’ vocabulary in Infant Directed Speech. Journal of Child Language, Volume 47(1), 146 – 158. doi: 10.1017/S0305000919000205 Published Online on 29 April 2019
Nandy, A, Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2020). Parental toy play and toddlers’ socio-emotional development: The moderating role of coparenting dynamics. Infant Behaviour & Development. Volume 60, August 2020, 101465.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101465
Kelly, L., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2020). Father-child shared book-reading in light- and heavy-text conditions. Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES). Carnegie Mellon University.
Eleanor Molloy et al., HRB NEPTUNE project as the corresponding author(s). (2020). Parental Involvement in a Multidisciplinary PhD programme in Neonatal Brain Injury. HRB Open Research. https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/3-40/v1
Del Rosario, C., Slevin, M., Molloy, E., Quigley, J. & Nixon, E. (2020). How to use the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice. DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319063
Conica, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. (2020). Fathers’ but not Mothers’ Repetition of Children’s Utterances at Age Two is Associated with Child Vocabulary at Age Four. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104738. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104738
Quigley, J., Nixon, E. & Lawson, S. (2019). Exploring the association of infant receptive language and pitch variability in fathers’ infant directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 46(4), 800-811. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000175
Quigley, J. & Nixon, E. (2016). Parental investment and child development. In: Cherishing all the children equally? Ireland 100 years on from the Easter Rising. Dublin: Oaktree. pp. 73-93.