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Direct linkSperry, Douglas E.; Sperry, Linda L.; Miller, Peggy J. – Child Development, 2019
Amid growing controversy about the oft-cited "30-million-word gap," this investigation uses language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test, for the first time, Hart and Risley's (1995) claim that poor children hear 30 million fewer words than their middle-class counterparts during the early years…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Vocabulary Development, Infants, Toddlers
