Parental Use of Causal Language for Preterm and Full-Term Children: a Longitudinal Study

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dc.contributor.author Ozdemir, S.C.
dc.contributor.author Aktan Erciyes, Aslı
dc.contributor.author Aktan-Erciyes, A.
dc.contributor.author Göksun, T.
dc.contributor.other Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-19T15:05:14Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-19T15:05:14Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.department-temp Ozdemir, S.C., Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey; Aktan-Erciyes, A., Department of Psychology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey; Göksun, T., Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description.abstract Parents are often a good source of information, introducing children to how the world around them is described and explained in terms of cause-and-effect relations. Parents also vary in their speech, and these variations can predict children's later language skills. Being born preterm might be related to such parent-child interactions. The present longitudinal study investigated parental causal language use in Turkish, a language with particular causative morphology, across three time points when preterm and full-term children were 14-, 20-, and 26-months-old. In general, although preterm children heard fewer words overall, there were no differences between preterm and full-term groups in terms of the proportion of causal language input. Parental causal language input increased from 20 to 26 months, while the amount of overall verbal input remained the same. These findings suggest that neonatal status can influence the amount of overall parental talk, but not parental use of causal language. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship James S. McDonnell Foundation, JSMF: 220020510 en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award (220020510) to Tilbe Göksun. We thank everyone at the Language and Cognition Lab at Koç University for their continued support, with special thanks to Işıl Doğan, Şeref Can Esmer, Erim Kızıldere, and Mert Kobaş. Many thanks to Metin Sabancı Healthcare Center, Cerebral Palsy Turkey, El Bebek Gül Bebek Foundation for Premature Birth and Gymboree Classes. We thank Nurgül Arslan, Eda Demir, Ayşe Doğan, Yasemin Derme, Teoman Soydan, Osman Çağrı Oğuz, Ercan Çavuşoğlu, and Duru Girişken who assisted with data collection, coding, and reliability. We are also grateful to the children and parents who participated in the study. en_US
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dc.identifier.doi 10.1017/S030500092300048X en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0305-0009
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dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500092300048X
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/4758
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dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Cambridge University Press en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Child Language en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.subject causal language en_US
dc.subject early vocabulary en_US
dc.subject parental input en_US
dc.subject preterm development en_US
dc.subject article en_US
dc.subject child en_US
dc.subject female en_US
dc.subject human en_US
dc.subject human experiment en_US
dc.subject information source en_US
dc.subject language ability en_US
dc.subject longitudinal study en_US
dc.subject male en_US
dc.subject newborn en_US
dc.subject speech en_US
dc.subject vocabulary en_US
dc.title Parental Use of Causal Language for Preterm and Full-Term Children: a Longitudinal Study en_US
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