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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Developmental Science, 2022
For the past 25 years, researchers have investigated language input to children from high- and low-socioeconomic status (SES) families. Hart and Risley first reported a "30 Million Word Gap" between high-SES and low-SES children. More recent studies have challenged the size or even existence of this gap. The present study is a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Infants, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language
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Farran, Lama K.; Lederberg, Amy R.; Jackson, Lori A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Mothers facilitate their young hearing children's word learning by making reference explicit for novel words through physical designation (e.g., with deictic gestures) and by isolating words in simple syntactic frames. As children's language skills develop, such modifications decrease. Less is known about hearing mothers' support to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Deafness, Preschool Children, Language Skills