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Pancsofar, Nadya; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Odom, Erika C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2013
Fathers' vocabulary to infants has been linked in the literature to early child language development, however, little is known about the variability in fathers' language behavior. This study considered associations between fathers' work characteristics and fathers' vocabulary among a sample of employed African American fathers of 6-month-old…
Descriptors: African American Family, Rural Areas, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Odom, Erika C.; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Crouter, Ann C. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
In this study, observed maternal positive engagement and perception of work-family spillover were examined as mediators of the association between maternal nonstandard work schedules and children's expressive language outcomes in 231 African American families living in rural households. Mothers reported their work schedules when their child was 24…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Parent Child Relationship, African American Children, Expressive Language
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Garrett-Peters, Patricia; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Zerwas, Stephanie; Cox, Martha; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
Contextual, mother-, child-, and father-level variables were examined in association with fathers' emotion talk to infants during a shared picture book activity, in an ethnically diverse, low-income sample (N = 549). Significant main effects included the rate of emotion talk from fathers' romantic partners (i.e., the infant's mother), infant…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction