Early lexical development: Do day care attendance and maternal education matter?
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse the existence of differences in lexical development as a function of day care attendance and maternal education. Data were collected using the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences. The reports of 2084 toddlers were analysed. The results for toddlers older than 24 months indicated that those from mothers with higher educational levels produced a higher number of words in all lexical categories than those from mothers with lower educational levels. When considering younger toddlers, a significant effect of maternal education was only found on the number of common nouns produced. Nevertheless, the size of these effects was small. Quantity of day care attendance had no effect on the number of words produced. No interaction effects between maternal education and day care attendance were found. These findings indicate that maternal education may be differently associated with the production of words from different lexical categories.
Source: First Language
Institution: University of Minho
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
Awards: G2299564870, ADAPTAÇÃO DO INVENTÁRIO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO COMUNICATIVO DE MACARTHUR-BATES. ESTUDOS DE VALIDAÇÃO E DE TRACKING, AVALIAR PARA PREVENIR: Estudos de Tracking e Validação dos Inventários de Desenvolvimento Comunicativo de MacArthur-Bates para Português Europeu, O desenvolvimento comunicativo e linguístico até aos três anos de idade como preditor de competências de leitura no início da escolaridade, G7848974904
OpenAlex ID: W2807644161