In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a child's language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers(1)92 families from 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-educated middle-class families, with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, (2)all of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Development of Psychology.
The scientists measured the (3)number of utterances (话语) of the parents, the number of diffe-rent words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other(4)of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions as
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a child's language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers(1)92 families from 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-educated middle-class families, with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, (2)all of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Development of Psychology.
The scientists measured the (3)number of utterances (话语) of the parents, the number of diffe-rent words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other(4)of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions as
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