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Download full textBarrett, Martyn; And Others – 1986
This study was designed to answer the following three questions: (1) Are infants' first words always context-bound when they are initially acquired? (2) Do mothers use infants' first words in a context-bound manner when interacting with their infants? (3) What relationship, if any, exists between infants' initial use of early words and mothers'…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedFeinstein, Leon; Robertson, Donald; Symons, James – Education Economics, 1999
Examination of Britain's National Child Development Study data shows that children perform marginally better at 7 and 11 if they spent time with mothers or at a preschool. The British Cohort Study shows that time spent in nurseries effected no mathematics improvement and may have reduced reading vocabulary development. (Contains 20 references.)…
Descriptors: Day Care, Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Influences
