Motherese as therapy

Weistuch, Lucille; Brown, Betty Byers

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“…In this study, we found nonsignificant associations between parental language supporting behaviors (MLU, questioning, imitations, and elaborations) and child vocabulary use at 24 and 36 months. These findings are not in line with previous work documenting the association between parental language complexity and children’s language development (Tamis-LeMonda, Baumwell, & Cristofaro, 2012; Weistuch & Brown, 1987; Yoder & Warren, 1993). This lack of association may be due to the suppressed language complexity of the mothers in this sample.…”

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“…There are a number of parental language factors that may contribute to vocabulary learning in young dual language learners. For example, the structural hypothesis of language acquisition suggests that parent input that is slightly more complex than the child’s language output promotes growth in child language (Cross, 1977; Weistuch & Brown, 1987; Yoder & Warren, 1993). Structural aspects of parental input may include mean length of utterance (MLU), total number of words (TNW), and total number of different words (TDW).…”

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An examination of language input and vocabulary development of young Latino dual language learners living in poverty

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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the language status of 120 young, Latino dual language learners living in poverty in the United States. Maternal language input and home language and literacy environments were examined with regard to language development at 24 and 36 months. Results suggested that even when combining English and Spanish language knowledge scores, the children in this sample still performed below, albeit closer to, age level. The home language and literacy environments were significantly related to and predicted child language status at 24 and 36 months. The article discusses the implications of these findings with regard to the focus of early intervention efforts.

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An examination of language input and vocabulary development of young Latino dual language learners living in poverty

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Intensive interaction and autism: some theoretical concerns

Nind

Powell

2000

Child. Soc.

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Environmental correlates of child copula verb growth

Richards

Robinson

1993

J. Child Lang.

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A recurring result from studies which relate the frequency of input variables to rate of language development, is the link between auxiliary verb growth and yes—no questions addressed to children. Explanations for this relationship usually concentrate on the advantages of hearing stressed and non-contracted auxiliary forms in sentence-initial position over hearing unstressed, contracted forms in medial position in declaratives. If such accounts are correct, then it can be predicted that yes—no questions which place forms of COPULA be in initial position will also increase the rate of growth of children's COPULA verb development. This prediction was tested using a sample of 33 children, carefully matched for stage of language development at 1;9 and 2;0 years; rate of copula verb growth was then measured over the succeeding nine months. Analyses include an examination of the contribution of sub-categories of yes—no question, tag questions, and utterances containing sentence-final copulas to the growth of contracted and full copulas. Results confirm that the frequency of inverted copulas in yes—no questions predicts children's copula development. Nevertheless, caution is urged before interpreting the relationship in terms of a direct causal model.

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Motherese as therapy

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

An examination of language input and vocabulary development of young Latino dual language learners living in poverty

An examination of language input and vocabulary development of young Latino dual language learners living in poverty

Intensive interaction and autism: some theoretical concerns

Environmental correlates of child copula verb growth

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