References for child-directed speech and culture

[Cynthia W Core]

Hello -

Last month I asked the following questions.  Listed below are the responses
I received.  Thank you to all those who responded.

Cynthia Core





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Subject: Child-directed speech across languages/cultures



Hello all -



I was asked today about specific cultural influences on child-directed
speech and influence of child-directed speech on literacy acquisition.



The questions I have are



1.         "What are differences across cultures in terms of the amount of
linguistic input that children receive?"  I phrase it this way to allow for
the possibility that although some children are receiving less
child-directed speech, they may be getting input from the environment.



2.         "What (besides mother's ed level) influences how much a mother in
the United States speaks to her child?  Is SES more important than cultural
background or vice versa?"



I would like to compile a list of resources on this topic, and though I have
been able to find some references on-line, I'm sure this group will provide
the best resources.



Most recently, I have seen Johnston, J. and Wong, M-Y., A. (2002)  Cultural
Differences in Beliefs and Practices Concerning Talk to Children.  Journal
of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 916-926.





RESPONSES RECEIVED





Battle, D. E., & Andersen, N. (1998). Culturally diverse families and the
development of language. In D. E. Battle (Ed.), Communication disorders in
multicultural populations (pp. 213-245). Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.



Belenky, M. F., Bond, L. A., & Weinstock, J. S. (1997). A tradition that has
no name: Nurturing the development of people, families, and communities. New
York: Basic Books.



Bond, L. A., Belenky, M. F., Weinstock, J. S., & Cook, T. (1996). Imagining
and engaging one's children: Lessons from poor, rural, New England mothers.
In S. Harkness and C. M. Super (Eds.), Parent's cultural belief systems:
Their origins, expressions and consequences (pp. 467-495). New York:
Guilford Press.



Borduin, C. M., & Henggeler, S. W. (1981). Social class, experimental
setting, and task characteristics as determinants of mother-child
interaction. Developmental Psychology, 17 (2), 209-214.



Gaskins, S. (1996). How Mayan parental theories come into play. In S.
Harkness & C. M. Super (Eds.), Parent's cultural belief systems: Their
origins, expressions and consequences (pp. 345-363). New York: Guilford
Press.



Garcia-Coll, C. T., Meyer, E. C., & Brillon, L. (1995). Ethnic and minority
parenting. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (pp. 189-209).
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.



Goodnow, J. J. (1990). The socialization of cognition: What's involved? In
J. W. Stigler, R. A. Shweder & G. Hodt (Eds.), Cultural Psychology: Essays
on comparative human development (pp. 259-286). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge
University Press.



Goodnow, J. J. (1996). From household practices to parents' ideas about work
and interpersonal relationships. In S. Harkness & C. M. Super (Eds.),
Parents' cultural belief systems: Their origins, expressions, and
consequences (pp. 313-344). New York: Guildford Press.



Goodnow, J. J., & Collins, W. A. (1990). Development according to parents:
The nature sources, and consequences of parents' ideas. In H. McGurk (Ed.),
Essays in developmental psychology (pp. 190-121). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.



Heath, S. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life and work in communities
and classrooms. New York: Cambridge University Press.



Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1991). Mother-child conversation in different social
classes and communicative settings. Child Development, 62, 782-796.



Jimerson, T. L., & Bond, L. A. (2001). Mother's epistemologies, turn-taking
and contingent interaction with preschoolers. Journal of Applied
Developmental Psychology, 22 , 1-17.



McGillicuddy De-Lisi, A. V. (1992). Correlates of parental teaching
strategies in families of children evidencing normal and atypical
development. Special issue: Does environment really contribute to healthy,
quality life? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 13, 215-234.



McGillicudy-DeLisi, A. V. & Sigel, I. E. (1995). Parental beliefs. In M. H.
Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (pp. 333-358). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.



Murphey, D. A. (1992). Constructing the child: Relations between parents'
beliefs and child outcomes. Developmental Review, 12, 199-232.



New, R. S., & Richman, A. L. (1996). Maternal beliefs and infant care
practices in Italy and the United States. In S. Harkness & C. M. Super
(Eds.), Parents' cultural belief systems: Their origins, expressions, and
consequences (pp. 385-404). New York: Guildford Press.



Olsen-Fulero, L. (1982). Style and stability in mother conversational
behavior: A study of individual differences. Journal of Child Language, 9,
543-564.



Pomerleau, A., Malcuit, G., & Sabatier, C. (1991). Child-rearing practices
and parental beliefs in three cultural groups of Montreal: Quebecois,
Vietnamese, Haitian. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Cultural approaches to
parenting (pp. 45-68). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.



Rogoff, B. (1990). Apprenticeship in thinking. New York: Oxford University
Press.



Sameroff, A. J., & Feil, L. A. (1985). Parental concepts of development. In
I. E. Sigel (Ed.), Parental belief systems (pp. 83-105). Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.



Schieffelin, B. B., & Ochs, E. (1986). Language socialization. Annual Review
of Anthropology, 15, 163-191.



Sigel, I. E. (1986). Reflections on the belief-behavior connection: Lessons
learned from a research program on parental belief systems and teaching
strategies. In M. K. Ashmore & D. M. Brodzinsky (Eds.), Thinking about the
family: Views of parents and children (pp. 35-65). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.



Snow, C. E. (1995). Issues in the study of input: Finetuning, universality,
individual and developmental differences, and necessary causes. In P.
Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), The handbook of child language. New York:
Blackwell.



Try the two books by Betty Hart and Todd Risley

   "Meaningful Differences"

   "Social World World of Children Learning to Talk"



If you are interested in cultural diversity in acquisition, many of the
chapters in Dan Slobin's edited series (5 volumes) of the Crosslinguistic
Study of Language Acquisition' discuss the cultural context of acquisition
and the nature (or absence) of child directed speech. My own chapter on
Warlpiri (in volume 3) discusses the context of acquisition for a, mainly,
non literate group. Child directed speech is not common.  Clifton Pye has
written about child directed speech K'iche" Maya  (also volume 3)



There is a lot of published work on the cultural context of acquisition and
which societies use child directed speech and its nature by Eleanor Ochs and
Bambi Schieffelin



You'll find an excellent compilation in:

C. Gallaway & B. J. Richards (Eds.). Input and Interaction in Language
Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



In particular, look at the chapter by E. Lieven"Crosslinguistic and
crosscultual aspects of language addressed to children", since it includes a
review of the papers interested on this topic.





Cynthia Core, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road

PO Box 3091

Boca Raton, FL 33431

(561) 297-1138

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