Maternal directiveness, measured as prescriptive use, is correlated with slow vocabulary development¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1991 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Prior research, as summarized by this article, finds maternal directiveness assessed by prescriptive use is correlated with slow vocabulary development. → Nameera Akhtar 1991

Evidence¶

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

q2 · i? · associational · r1

The article's opening statement of the prior finding that motivates the study. The available text does not print the underlying studies' designs or statistics, so this is recorded as the article attributes it, with no effect size.

"Maternal directiveness, assessed by the mother's use of prescriptives, is correlated with slow vocabulary development."

Discussion¶

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