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Publication details [#55517]

Scheffner Hammer, Carol, Frank R. Lawrence and Barbara Rodrigez. 2011. Changes in language usage of Puerto Rican mothers and their children: Do gender and timing of exposure to English matter? Applied Psycholinguistics 32 (2) : 275–297.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | gender | language use | mother-child conversation | pre-school age

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish, Puerto Rican

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This longitudinal study on reported mother-child language use of Puerto Rican mothers and their preschool children over a 4-year period, reveals a child language use pattern following that of their mothers: those exposed to English before preschool entry, reported using more English, and English usage overall increased over the 4 years. Boys were clearly far more often addressed in English than girls. A bidimensional acculturation model is employed for interpreting the results.