Learning language from older siblings

[Keith Nelson]

Hi.   the chapter by Nelson & Bonvillian in the 
book Children's Language Vol 1 (K. E. Nelson Ed.) 
has an association between faster language growth 
and older siblings who are relatively close to 
the target child's age.   Best,  Keith N


At 10:44 AM -0700 5/23/08, Elena Nicoladis wrote:
>We have some data that are suggestive that a child may have been
>attending more to his older sister than to his parents in the
>acquisition of his early words (i.e., his parents spoke to him almost
>exclusively in Mandarin, his older sister about 50/50 Mandarin and
>English; there were no other significant caregivers during the
>relevant time period; the child's first 50 words are about equally
>split between the two languages).
>
>Does anyone know of any research on the role of older siblings in
>children's early language acquisition?
>
>I'd be happy to post a summary to the group, if there are multiple
>references.
>
>Cheers,
>Elena
>

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Keith Nelson
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