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The impact of book reading in the early years on parent-child language interaction

Topic:

NA

Authors:

Gilkerson, Richards, Topping

Journal/Publication:

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Year:

2017
Participant Age Range:
27 –
61 months

Sample Size:

36

Participant Language:

English

Abstract:

Early language development predicts later reading competence, but does reading to young children enhance the language interaction between them and their parents? Automatic assessment of language interaction now yields adult word counts, conversational tur