Maternal prescriptives that follow the child's focus of attention correlate positively with productive vocabulary at 1;10¶
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q2 i? The frequency of mothers' FOLLOW-prescriptives correlated significantly, highly, and positively with a productive vocabulary measure taken at 1;10. → Nameera Akhtar 1991
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Nameera Akhtar 1991¶
Nameera Akhtar, Frances Dunham and Philip J. Dunham. (1991). Directive interactions and early vocabulary development: the role of joint attentional focus. Journal of Child Language, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013283
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Correlational analysis of maternal speech from twelve mother-child dyads videotaped at age 1;1, with 100 maternal utterances coded per mother. The article reports that "Only the frequency of mothers' FOLLOW-prescriptives correlated significantly" with productive vocabulary at 1;10, and that the correlation was "high and positive". No effect size coefficient is printed in the available text.
"Only the frequency of mothers' FOLLOW-prescriptives correlated significantly with a productive vocabulary measure taken at 1;10. This correlation was high and positive"
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Related Claims¶
- Prescriptives that lead the child's attention did not correlate significantly with productive vocabulary — related
- Maternal directiveness, measured as prescriptive use, is correlated with slow vocabulary development — reports the opposite
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Maternal prescriptives that follow the child's focus of attention correlate positively with productive vocabulary at 1;10 |
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Maternal prescriptives that follow the child's focus of attention correlate positively with productive vocabulary at 1;10 |
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1991 |
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