Teaching by listening: The importance of adult-child conversations to language development

FJ Zimmerman, J Gilkerson, JA Richards…�- …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: To test the independent association of adult language input, television viewing,
and adult-child conversations on language acquisition among infants and toddlers.
METHODS: Two hundred seventy-five families of children aged 2 to 48 months who were
representative of the US census were enrolled in a cross-sectional study of the home
language environment and child language development (phase 1). Of these, a
representative sample of 71 families continued for a longitudinal assessment over 18�…
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