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SUBMITTER: Tal S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6174075 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of child language 20180705 6
Socio-economic status (SES) impacts the amount and type of input children hear in ways that have developmental consequences. Here, we examine the effect of SES on the use of variation sets (successive utterances with partial self-repetitions) in child-directed speech (CDS). Variation sets have been found to facilitate language learning, but have been studied only in higher-SES groups. Here, we examine their use in naturalistic speech in two languages (Hebrew and English) for both low- and high-S ...[more]