Caregiver talk to young Spanish‐English bilinguals: comparing direct observation and parent‐report measures of dual‐language exposure

Marchman, Virginia A.; Martínez, Lucía Z.; Hurtado, Nereyda; Grüter, Theres; Fernald, Anne

doi:10.1111/desc.12425

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“…Many studies have assessed quantity of exposure to each language using estimates by parents of relative quantity. Although this measure is second best, it is moderately to strongly correlated with word counts based on recordings and strongly related to concurrently obtained diary records of time exposed to English and Spanish . Most importantly, in many studies, caregivers’ estimates of children's relative quantity of exposure to each language significantly predict bilingual children's skill levels in each language .…”

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Bilingual Development in Children of Immigrant Families

Hoff

2017

Child Dev Perspectives

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Early exposure to two languages is widely thought to guarantee successful bilingual development. Contradicting that belief, children in bilingual immigrant families who grow up hearing a heritage language and a majority language from birth often reach school age with low levels of skill in both languages. This outcome cannot be explained fully by influences of socioeconomic status. In this article, I summarize research that helps explain the trajectories of observed dual language growth among children in immigrant families in terms of the amount and quality of their language exposure as well as their own language use.

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Bilingual Development in Children of Immigrant Families

Hoff

2017

Child Dev Perspectives

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“…However, there are other factors that could potentially attenuate across‐language correlations. For example, bilingual caregivers often have disparate levels of competencies in each of their home languages, or the quality of input may differ between languages for other reasons (Marchman, Martínez, Hurtado, Grüter, & Fernald, ). Furthermore, a measure of relative language exposure at home cannot account for differences in the amount of time children are exposed to each language in other arenas.…”

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Is there a direct relation between the development of vocabulary and grammar?

Brinchmann

Braeken²,

Lyster

2018

Developmental Science

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Previous studies of individual differences have revealed strong correlations between children's vocabulary and grammatical abilities, and these data have been used to support theoretical accounts positing direct developmental relations between these two areas of language. However, between-person differences do not necessarily reflect intra-individual dynamics. Thus, in the present study, we analysed longitudinal data from three annual assessments of vocabulary and grammar in 217 children (M = 4 years and 3 months at first assessment) using a modelling strategy with some utility in distinguishing relations at the between- and within-person levels. The results revealed strong correlations between grammar and vocabulary at the between-person level, but the evidence of direct dependencies between the variables at the within-person level was rather limited. Specifically, we found a small direct contribution from grammar to vocabulary for children between the ages of 4 and 5, but there was no evidence of any direct contributions from vocabulary to grammar. Further analyses suggested that the home literacy environment may represent a common source of individual differences in children's vocabulary and grammatical skills. In light of these results, we argue that the evidence of direct relations between vocabulary and grammatical development in preschool-aged children may not be as strong as previously assumed.

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“…Previous research has found caregiver estimates obtained in this way to be strongly related to diary‐based measures of the amount of time children are exposed to each language and to their skill levels in each language (Hoff et al., ). The estimates do not, however, capture differences in the density or quality of input, which also contribute to differences in children's language growth (Marchman, Martínez, Hurtado, Grüter, & Fernald, ).…”

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What explains the correlation between growth in vocabulary and grammar? New evidence from latent change score analyses of simultaneous bilingual development

Hoff

Quinn

Giguere

2017

Developmental Science

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A close relationship between children's vocabulary size and the grammatical complexity of their speech is well attested but not well understood. The present study used latent change score modeling to examine the dynamic relationships between vocabulary and grammar growth within and across languages in longitudinal data from 90 simultaneous Spanish-English bilingual children who were assessed at 6-month intervals between 30 and 48 months. Slopes of vocabulary and grammar growth were strongly correlated within each language and showed moderate or nonsignificant relationships across languages. There was no evidence that vocabulary level predicted subsequent grammar growth or that the level of grammatical development predicted subsequent vocabulary growth. We propose that a common influence of properties of input on vocabulary and grammatical development is the source of their correlated but uncoupled growth. An unanticipated across-language finding was a negative relationship between level of English skill and subsequent Spanish growth. We propose that the cultural context of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US is the reason that strong English skills jeopardize Spanish language growth, while Spanish skills do not affect English growth. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/qEHSQ0yRre0.

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Caregiver talk to young Spanish‐English bilinguals: comparing direct observation and parent‐report measures of dual‐language exposure

Cited by 162 publications

References 38 publications

Bilingual Development in Children of Immigrant Families

Bilingual Development in Children of Immigrant Families

Is there a direct relation between the development of vocabulary and grammar?

What explains the correlation between growth in vocabulary and grammar? New evidence from latent change score analyses of simultaneous bilingual development

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