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Levine, Dani; Pace, Amy; Luo, Rufan; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; de Villiers, Jill; Igesias, Aquiles; Wilson, Mary Sweig – Grantee Submission, 2020
Early language competence is a reliable and powerful predictor of children's success in school, and word gaps linked to socioeconomic status disparities have cascading effects on academic outcomes. While early research -- such as the work of Hart and Risley (1995) -- focused on gaps in vocabulary, growing evidence reveals wide gaps in syntax as…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Socioeconomic Status, Screening Tests, Social Differences
Butler, Katharine G. – Acta Symbolica, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception