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Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary.

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Laing, CE; Bergelson, E
Published in: Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
January 2019

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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Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

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EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

24

Issue

1

Start / End Page

101 / 109

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Laing, C. E., & Bergelson, E. (2019). Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary. Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 24(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12265
Laing, Catherine E., and Elika Bergelson. “Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary.Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies 24, no. 1 (January 2019): 101–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12265.
Laing CE, Bergelson E. Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 2019 Jan;24(1):101–9.
Laing, Catherine E., and Elika Bergelson. “Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary.Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 101–09. Epmc, doi:10.1111/infa.12265.
Laing CE, Bergelson E. Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 2019 Jan;24(1):101–109.
Journal cover image

Published In

Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

DOI

EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

24

Issue

1

Start / End Page

101 / 109

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1701 Psychology