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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
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Kan, Marni L.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study examined dimensions of mothers' and fathers' involvement in adolescents' romantic relationships when offspring were age 17. Using cluster analysis, parents from 105 White, working and middle class families were classified as positively involved, negatively involved, or autonomy-oriented with respect to their adolescents' romantic…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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Lucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert – Sign Language Studies, 2005
Variation in the parts of ASL signs (i.e., phonological variation) has been explained largely by reference to the influence of the preceding and the following segments. This article examines three linguistic variables in ASL: the sign deaf; the location of a class of signs represented by the verb know; and signs produced with a 1 handshape. For…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Grammar, Phonology, Form Classes (Languages)