‘Mom talk:’ Study finds immigrant bilingual Latina mothers have dual-language personalities
Researchers examined the quantity of maternal speech, how mothers elicited conversation in their children, child conversational participation, and the ratio of maternal-to-child utterances. They also tested whether heritage culture would be a source of any observed differences. Credit: Florida Atlantic University
Children who hear a language other than English at home currently make up more than 25% of the school-aged…