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¶
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q2 i? Parents produced an average of 65.76 instances of total number talk (SD=44.3, range 4–168) across five sessions, with present-object small-set talk most common (M=30.2, SD=22.6). → Gunderson Elizabeth A. 2011
Evidence¶
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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Descriptive analysis of the 7.5 hours of transcribed parent-child interaction at ages 14–30 months (N=44). Counting and cardinal-value labeling together accounted for 73 percent of total number talk; 13 parents (30 percent) never produced large-number present-object talk.
"Cumulatively across all five sessions, parents produced an average of 65.76 instances of total number talk (SD=44.3), with a range from 4 to 168 instances"
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Related Claims¶
- Parent number talk about large sets (4–10) of present objects predicts children's cardinal-number knowledge more robustly than talk about small sets (1–3) — related
- Parent number talk about present, visible objects predicts children's later cardinal-number knowledge, whereas number talk without present objects does not — related
- Small-number parent talk predicts children's performance only on low-number items, whereas large-number talk predicts both low- and high-number Point-to-X items — related
- Parent number talk is not related to children's general vocabulary development once SES and overall talk are controlled, indicating domain specificity — related
- Parent SES significantly predicts children's cardinal-number knowledge at 46 months, accounting for 24 percent of variance — related
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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 |
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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 |
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