An increasing number of parents use mobile devices while caring for children and share devices with children during play. However, recent evidence suggests that independent parental mobile device use and shared parent-child device use may harm parent-to-child language. A counterbalanced, repeated measures study was conducted to investigate whether parent language quality and quantity differed between (1) parental device use, (2) parental magazine reading, (3) shared parent-child device play and (4) shared parent-child non-digital toy play. Data were collected from 24 parent-child dyads with children aged between 2.0 and 3.11 years during recorded laboratory observations. Parents provided a significantly higher number of new words and utterances during shared non-digital play compared to independent parental device use and shared non-digital play compared to shared device play. Language quantity and quality did not vary between parental device use and parental magazine use. Recommendations for parents and professionals aiming to promote children's language development with mobile devices are discussed. These results encourage parents to select non-digital toys rather than devices to promote language development in children.

越来越多的父母在照顾孩子时使用移动设备，并在玩耍时与孩子共享设备。但是，最近的证据表明，独立父母移动设备的使用和父母子女设备的共享使用可能会损害父母子女的语言。进行了一项平衡，重复的措施研究，以调查父母的语言质量和数量在以下方面是否有所不同：（1）父母设备的使用，（2）父母杂志的阅读，（3）共享的父子设备玩法和（4）共享的父子设备-数字玩具游戏。在记录的实验室观察期间，从年龄在2.0到3.11岁之间的24个亲子二元组收集了数据。与独立的父母设备使用相比，在共享的非数字游戏中，父母提供了更多的新单词和语音，与共享设备的游戏相比，父母提供了共享的非数字游戏。父母使用的设备和父母使用的杂志之间语言的数量和质量没有变化。讨论了旨在通过移动设备促进儿童语言发展的父母和专业人员的建议。这些结果鼓励父母选择非数字玩具，而不是促进儿童语言发展的设备。