Grammatical morpheme use in contingent language behaviors occurring within low-ses mother-child interactions
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This study explored how low-SES mothers used different language behaviors with grammatical morphemes when responding to their children and how their children produced the same grammatical morphemes found in the language behaviors mothers used. This study also explored the predictive relation between maternal use of language behaviors with grammatical morphemes and children's use of grammatical morphemes over time. Mothers' use of conversational recast, topic continuation, and topic change language behaviors with grammatical morphemes was measured during play-based interactions with their children when they were 24- and 36 months of age. The frequency and accuracy of the grammatical morphemes children produced at 24- and 36 months of age were also measured. Mothers used topic continuation and conversational recast frequently enough to measure, while topic change was used too infrequently to analyze. Study results showed the mean frequency and accuracy of child grammatical morpheme production and mean length of utterance increased between 24- months and 36 months. Study results also showed maternal conversational recast, or topic continuation use at 24 months, did not predict child frequency or accuracy of grammatical morpheme production at 36 months
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