Publications

Publication details [#66494]

Scheffner Hammer, Carol, Jessica A. Willard, Birgit Leyendecker, Dana Bitetti and Lauren M. Cycyk. 2019. Mothers’ depressive symptoms and their children’s Turkish heritage language vocabulary development. International Journal of Bilingualism 23 (1) : 71–86.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | family conversation | mother-child conversation | primary school | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Turkish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

journals.sagepub.com/home/ijb

Annotation

This inquiry explored associations between mothers’ depressive symptoms and the Turkish heritage vocabulary of their school-age children. Mothers’ depressive symptoms were not significantly associated with children’s vocabulary in fourth grade, but did portend slower growth in children’s vocabulary from fourth to sixth grade.