Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary.
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Literature examining the effects of mothers' work status on infant language development is mixed, with little focus on varying work-schedules and early vocabulary. We use naturalistic data to analyze the productive vocabulary of 44 17-month-olds in relation to mothers' work status (Full-time, Part-time, Stay-at-home) at 6 and 18 months. Infants who experienced a combination of care from mothers and other caretakers had larger productive vocabularies than infants in solely full-time maternal or solely other-caretaker care. Our results draw from naturalistic data to suggest that this care combination may be particularly beneficial for early lexical development.
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Laing, Catherine E, and Elika Bergelson (2019). Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 24(1). pp. 101–109. 10.1111/infa.12265 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19715.
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