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Rowe, Meredith L.; Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 2012
Children vary widely in the rate at which they acquire words--some start slow and speed up, others start fast and continue at a steady pace. Do early developmental variations of this sort help predict vocabulary skill just prior to kindergarten entry? This longitudinal study starts by examining important predictors (socioeconomic status [SES],…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development
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Rowe, Meredith L.; Coker, David; Pan, Barbara Alexander – Social Development, 2004
The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive information about low-income fathers' and mothers' talk to toddlers and to re-examine the bridge hypothesis (Gleason, 1975) in light of current changes in family structure and childcare responsibilities. Thirty-three father-child and mother-child dyads were videotaped during semi-structured free…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Toddlers, Family Structure
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Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith L.; Spier, Elizabeth; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers' productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory-Short Form (CDI) at child age 2;0 was compared to concurrent spontaneous speech measures and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Correlation, Child Language, Language Acquisition