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Direct linkRochanavibhata, Sirada; Marian, Viorica – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Maternal scaffolding and four-year-old children's linguistic skills were examined during toy play. Participants were 21 American-English monolingual and 21 Thai monolingual mother-child dyads. Results revealed cross-cultural differences in conversation styles between the two groups. American dyads adopted a high-elaborative style relative to Thai…
Descriptors: Play, Cross Cultural Studies, Asians, North Americans
Hurtado, Nereyda; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Research on the development of efficiency in spoken language understanding has focused largely on middle-class children learning English. Here we extend this research to Spanish-learning children (n=49; M=2;0; range=1;3-3;1) living in the USA in Latino families from primarily low socioeconomic backgrounds. Children looked at pictures of familiar…
Descriptors: Language Research, Eye Movements, Oral Language, Disadvantaged Youth
Bornstein, Marc H.; Cote, Linda R. – Infancy, 2005
This study compared multiple characteristics of girls' and boys' vocabulary in 6 different linguistic communities--1 urban and 1 rural setting in each of 3 countries. Two hundred fifty-two mothers in Argentina, Italy, and the United States completed vocabulary checklists for their 20-month-old children. Individual variability was substantial…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistics, Urban Areas, Rural Areas
