Linking quality and quantity of parental linguistic input to child language skills: A meta‐analysis

NJ Anderson, SA Graham, H Prime… - Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This meta‐analysis examined associations between the quantity and quality of parental
linguistic input and children's language. Pooled effect size for quality (ie, vocabulary …

Analyzing input quality along three dimensions: interactive, linguistic, and conceptual.

ML Rowe, CE Snow - Journal of child language, 2020 - cambridge.org
This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language
learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive …

Association between screen time and children's performance on a developmental screening test

S Madigan, D Browne, N Racine, C Mori… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Excessive screen time is associated with delays in development; however, it is
unclear if greater screen time predicts lower performance scores on developmental …

Rethinking executive function and its development

S Doebel - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on executive function in early childhood has flourished in recent years. Much of
this work is premised on a view of development of executive function as the emergence of a …

The role of parent educational attainment in parenting and children's development

PE Davis-Kean, LA Tighe… - Current Directions in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent
occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children's developmental …

Language matters: Denying the existence of the 30‐million‐word gap has serious consequences

RM Golinkoff, E Hoff, ML Rowe… - Child …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30‐million‐word gap by
claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech than Hart and …

The relation between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement in China: A meta-analysis

J Liu, P Peng, L Luo - Educational Psychology Review, 2020 - Springer
Academic achievement is one of the most important indicators for assessing students'
performance and educational attainment. Family socioeconomic status (SES) is the main …

Reexamining the verbal environments of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds

DE Sperry, LL Sperry, PJ Miller - Child development, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Amid growing controversy about the oft‐cited “30‐million‐word gap,” this investigation uses
language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test …

Individual differences in language acquisition and processing

E Kidd, S Donnelly, MH Christiansen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

A meta‐analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and executive function performance among children

GM Lawson, CJ Hook, MJ Farah - Developmental science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function
(EF) has recently attracted attention within psychology, following reports of substantial SES …