Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: During the early months of a child’s language development, their ability to perceive and process language is very fluid and the language input they receive can have a large impact on their language later in life. From the beginning, children need to be able to differentiate the sounds of speech from the rest of the sounds that occur in their environment (Golinkoff, Can, Soderstrom, Hirsh-Pasek, 2015). In other words, children are exposed to the different sounds in their environment and they begin to pick up on the speech sounds, such as conversation-like interactions, with their parents (Golinkoff et al., 2015). Hart and Risley (1995) found that there were differences in the amount of interaction parents have with their children correlated with socioeconomic status (SES) groups. Researchers have identified that the more interaction that children have with their families, the greater their vocabulary will grow (Golinkoff et al., 2015). The results showed no significant difference between the low SES mothers and the mid SES mothers.
Author: Miranda Steinbeck
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2771201372