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Salo, Virginia C.; Rowe, Meredith L.; Leech, Kathryn A.; Cabrera, Natasha J. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Fathers' child-directed speech across two contexts was examined. Father-child dyads from sixty-nine low-income families were videotaped interacting during book reading and toy play when children were 2;0. Fathers used more diverse vocabulary and asked more questions during book reading while their mean length of utterance was longer during toy…
Descriptors: Low Income, Fathers, Interpersonal Communication, Toddlers
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Fitzgerald, Colleen E.; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: Evidence for tense marking in child-directed speech varies both across languages (Guasti, 2002; Legate & Yang, 2007) and across speakers of a single language (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald, & Bahnsen, 2011). The purpose of this study was to understand how parent interaction styles and register use overlap with the tense-marking…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Morphemes, Grammar