'Mom Talk,' Language and Heritage Culture (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

'Mom Talk,' Language and Heritage Culture

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Researchers examined the quantity of maternal speech, how mothers elicited conversation in their children, child conversational participation, and the ratio of maternal-to-child utterances. They also tested whether heritage culture would be a source of any observed differences.

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Florida Atlantic University

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