Using language transcripts to identify maternal responsiveness

[marilyn vihman]

There were some interesting papers on just this topic in the early  
80s, in JCh.Lg., by - I think - Linda Maldorado or McDonald...The name  
isn't quite right, and I think she changed names between the two  
studies anyway...We ran several analyses on our transcripts of 1- and  
3-yr-old children at the Stanford Child Phonology Project at that  
time, using the coding scheme from those papers, but the data were  
lost at one point and we never published them. The gist of our  
findings was that the more directive mothers' children (at age 1) were  
less talkative (shorter turns at talk) at age 3...but (a) does this  
matter? and (b) the causal arrow might go the opposite way: Mothers of  
children who were quite talkative did not have to do much directing  
while we observers from Stanford made recordings every week...

Anyway, Linda's coding scheme seemed great to us at the time (I am  
away from my home base at the moment and so can't go look up the  
journals on the shelf...)

-marilyn

On 9 Jul 2009, at 13:52, sara schmitt wrote:

>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> I am interested in using language transcripts to identify whether
> mothers are redirecting or following their child's language/focus.  Do
> you have any suggestions on how to proceed with this or which papers
> are relevant to this topic?
>
> Thank you,
> Sara Schmitt
> >

Marilyn VIhman
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