Directive interactions and early vocabulary development: the role of joint attentional focus  

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Akhtar, Nameera ; Dunham, Philip J. ; DUNHAM, FRANCES

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 18 no. 1 (Feb. 1991), page 41-50.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Maternal directiveness, assessed by the mother's use of prescriptives, is correlated with slow vocabulary development. As prescriptives are most often used to redirect a child's attention to a different object or activity, it is hypothesized that attentional regulation underlies this negative relationship. In the present study, twelve mothers were videotaped interacting with their children aged I; I, and 100 maternal utterances were coded for pragmatic intent. Prescriptives were coded as either changing (LEADING) or FOLLOWING the child's focus of attention. Only the frequency of mothers' FOLLow-prescriptives correlated significantly with a productive vocabulary measure taken at I; 10. This correlation was high and positive, indicating that, given joint focus, directing a 13month-old's behaviour can have beneficial effects on subsequent vocabulary development.

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