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Peer reviewedDunham, Philip; Dunham, Frances – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers' utterances were measured during interactions with their 13-month-old infants and correlated with measures of infants' productive lexical development at 13 and 24 months. Correlations between maternal measures and infants' lexical development were lower for employed mothers than for mothers who were full-time caregivers. (BC)
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition
