Browsing by Author "Pan, Barbara"
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Communicative Intents Expressed by Parents in Interaction with Young Children.
Pan, Barbara; Imbens-Bailey, Alison; Winner, Kendra; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (1996)Although much attention has been devoted to lexical, grammatical, and semantic aspects of child-directed speech, less is known about its pragmatics. This paper describes a longitudinal study of the communicative intents ... -
A Comparison of Fathers' and Mothers' Talk to Toddlers in Low-income Families
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Coker, David; Pan, Barbara Alexander (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive information about low-income fathers’ and mothers’ talk to toddlers and to re-examine the bridge hypothesis (Gleason, 1975) in light of current changes in family ... -
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Singer, Judith D.; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ... -
Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families: concurrent and predictive validity of three sources of data
Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith Lee; SPIER, ELIZABETH; TAMIS-LEMONDA, CATHERINE (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004)This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers’ productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative ... -
Predictors of Variation in Maternal Talk to Children: A Longitudinal Study of Low-Income Families
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Pan, Barbara Alexander; Ayoub, Catherine Marie Cook (2005)Objective. The goals of this study were (1) to examine the extent of variation in amount and lexical diversity of maternal talk to young children within a sample of low-income families, (2) to determine the patterns of ...