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Peer reviewedAdams, Judith L.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1980
Patterns of speech from lower socioeconomic status mothers to their infants were analyzed to determine correlations with infant risk of mental retardation. Measures of maternal language included sentence form, amount of speech, and syntactic complexity. The proportion of imperatives was positively correlated with risk status and negatively…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Individual Differences, Infants, Intelligence Quotient
Download full textCaldas, Stephen J.; Caron-Caldas, Suzanne – 1996
A study described, analyzed, and evaluated a project to rear three French-English bilingual children in a predominantly English-speaking environment. Using weekly tape recordings of spontaneous dinnertime conversation, a ratio of French-to-English utterances was calculated, and correlated with linguistically significant events documented in field…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Discourse Analysis
