Language Experiences and Vocabulary Development in Dominican and Mexican Infants across the First 2 Years

Autor/inn/en	Song, Lulu; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Wu, Irene
Titel	Language Experiences and Vocabulary Development in Dominican and Mexican Infants across the First 2 Years
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 48 (2012) 4, S.1106-1123 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0026401
Schlagwörter	Mexican Americans; Latin Americans; Hispanic Americans; Vocabulary Development; Infants; Language Enrichment; Mothers; Literacy; Parent Child Relationship; English; Spanish; Interviews; Longitudinal Studies; New York; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory; Mullen Scales of Early Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanoamerikaner; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Hispanic; Wortschatzarbeit; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; English language; Englisch; Spanisch; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	We longitudinally investigated parental language context and infants' language experiences in relation to Dominican American and Mexican American infants' vocabularies. Mothers provided information on parental language context, comprising measures of parents' language background (i.e., childhood language) and current language use during interviews at infants' birth. Infants' language experiences were measured at ages 14 months and 2 years through mothers' reports of mothers' and fathers' engagement in English and Spanish literacy activities with infants and mothers' English and Spanish utterances during videotaped mother-infant interactions. Infants' vocabulary development at 14 months and 2 years was examined using standardized vocabulary checklists in English and Spanish. Both parental language context and infants' language experiences predicted infants' vocabularies in each language at both ages. Furthermore, language experiences mediated associations between parental language context and infants' vocabularies. However, the specific mediation mechanisms varied by language. (Contains 4 tables, 6 figures and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10