Parent number talk is not related to children's general vocabulary development once SES and overall talk are controlled, indicating domain specificity¶
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q2 i? In partial correlations controlling for parents' SES and overall non-number talk, none of the 4 types of parent number talk correlated with children's PPVT vocabulary scores at 54 months (all p's>.35). → Gunderson Elizabeth A. 2011
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Gunderson Elizabeth A. 2011¶
Gunderson Elizabeth A., Levine Susan C. (2011). Some types of parent number talk count more than others: Relations between parents' input and children's cardinal-number knowledge. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01050.x
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Null secondary analysis in the Results section (N=43 for PPVT). Vocabulary was correlated with SES (r(41)=.58, p<.001) and parents' overall word tokens (r(41)=.52, p<.001), but number talk added nothing, supporting domain specificity. No effect sizes printed.
"in a partial correlation controlling for parents' SES and overall non-number talk, we found no significant correlations between children's vocabulary knowledge and any of the 4 types of parent number talk (all p's>.35)"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it
- Vocabulary — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Parent rare word use at 30 months predicts child PPVT at 42 months with quantity, SES, and prior vocabulary controlled — related
- Parental language input differs in quantity and quality across SES groups and relates to children's vocabulary, grammar, and processing development — a broader claim this one bears on
- Parent narrative utterances at 42 months predict child PPVT at 54 months with quantity, SES, and prior vocabulary controlled — related
- Parent explanations at 42 months are marginally related to child PPVT at 54 months with controls — related
- Parent vocabulary diversity at 30 months predicts child PPVT at 42 months with quantity, SES, and prior vocabulary controlled — related
- Parent number talk is infrequent but varies widely, and most of it concerns counting or labeling sets, with present-object small-set talk the most common type — related
- Parent SES significantly predicts children's cardinal-number knowledge at 46 months, accounting for 24 percent of variance — related
- Parent number talk about present, visible objects predicts children's later cardinal-number knowledge, whereas number talk without present objects does not — related
- Parent STEM talk has been linked to better child STEM outcomes in prior research, per the authors — related
- The number talk × inhibitory control interaction is domain-specific: it did not hold for parents' overall talk or for children's vocabulary as the outcome — related
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Parent number talk is not related to children's general vocabulary development once SES and overall talk are controlled, indicating domain specificity |
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Parent number talk is not related to children's general vocabulary development once SES and overall talk are controlled, indicating domain specificity |
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2011 |
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