Browsing by Author "Rowe, Meredith"
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Child-directed speech: relation to socioeconomic status, knowledge of child development and child vocabulary skill
Rowe, Meredith Lee (Cambridge University Press, 2008)This study sought to determine why American parents from different socioeconomic backgrounds communicate in different ways with their children. Forty-seven parent–child dyads were videotaped engaging in naturalistic ... -
Children's Early Decontextualized Talk Predicts Academic Language Proficiency in Midadolescence
Uccelli, Paola; Demir-Lira, Özlem Ece; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Levine, Susan; Goldin-Meadow, Susan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)This study examines whether children’s decontextualized talk—talk about nonpresent events, explanations, orpretend—at 30 months predicts seventh-grade academic language proficiency (age 12). Academic language(AL) refers to ... -
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 ... -
A comparison of preschool children's discussions with parents during picture book and chapter book reading
Leech, Kathryn Anne; Rowe, Meredith Lee (SAGE Publications, 2014)Discussions that occur during book reading between parents and preschool children relate to children’s language development, especially discussions during picture books that include extended discourse, a form of abstract ... -
Decontextualized Language Input and Preschoolers' Vocabulary Development
Rowe, Meredith Lee (Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)This article discusses the importance of using decontextualized language, or language that is removed from the here and now including pretend, narrative, and explanatory talk, with preschool children. The literature on ... -
Differences in Early Gesture Explain SES Disparities in Child Vocabulary Size at School Entry
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Goldin-Meadow, S. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009)Children from low–socioeconomic status (SES) families, on average, arrive at school with smaller vocabularies than children from high-SES families. In an effort to identify precursors to, and possible remedies for, this ... -
Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury?
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Levine, Susan C.; Fisher, Joan A.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan (American Psychological Association (APA), 2009)Children with unilateral pre- or perinatal brain injury (BI) show remarkable plasticity for language learning. Previous work highlights the important role that lesion characteristics play in explaining individual variation ... -
Early gesture selectively predicts later language learning
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Goldin-Meadow, Susan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)The gestures children produce predict the early stages of spoken language development. Here we ask whether gesture is a global predictor of language learning, or whether particular gestures predict particular language ... -
Father Input and Child Vocabulary Development: The Importance of Wh Questions and Clarification Requests
Leech, Kathryn Anne; Salo, Virginia; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Cabrera, Natasha (Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)Individual differences in children’s language skills have been shown to stem in part from variations in the quantity and quality of parent speech input. However, most research focuses on mothers’ input whereas less is ... -
Father–toddler communication in low-income families: The role of paternal education and depressive symptoms
Malin, Jenessa L.; Karberg, Elizabeth; Cabrera, Natasha J.; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Cristaforo, Tonia; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. (2012)Using data from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of low-income fathers and their 2-year-old children who participated in the Early Head Start Research Evaluation Project (n = 80), the current study explored the ... -
How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Thapa, Bijaya Kumar; LeVine, Robert Alan; Levine, Sarah E.; Tuladhar, Sumon K. (University of Chicago Press, 2005) -
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Ozcaliskan, S.; Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008)Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes ... -
Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers
Schnell-Anzola, Beatrice; Rowe, Meredith Lee; LeVine, Robert Alan (2005)This article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal ... -
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Role of Quantity and Quality of Child-Directed Speech in Vocabulary Development
Rowe, Meredith Lee (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Quantity and quality of caregiver input was examined longitudinally in a sample of 50 parent–child dyads to determine which aspects of input contribute most to children’s vocabulary skill across early development. ... -
LOW-INCOME, MINORITY FATHERS’ CONTROL STRATEGIES AND THEIR CHILDREN'S REGULATORY SKILLS
Malin, Jenessa L.; Cabrera, Natasha J.; Karberg, Elizabeth; Aldoney, Daniela; Rowe, Meredith Lee (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)The current study explored the bidirectional association of children’s individual characteristics, fathers’ control strategies at 24 months, and children’s regulatory skills at prekindergarten (pre-K). Using a sample of ... -
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 ... -
Maternal Literacy and Child Health in Less-Developed Countries: Evidence, Processes, and Limitations
LeVine, Robert Alan; Rowe, Meredith Lee (2009) -
Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study
LeVine, Robert Alan; Levine, Sarah E.; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Schnell-Anzola, Beatrice (2004)This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was ... -
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 ... -
The Pace of Vocabulary Growth Helps Predict Later Vocabulary Skill
Rowe, Meredith Lee; Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Children vary widely in the rate at which they acquire words—some start slow and speed up, others start fast and continue at a steady pace. Do early developmental variations of this sort help predict vocabulary skill ...