Quality not quantity of television viewing is associated with bilingual toddlers' vocabulary scores

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-254

  Hudon, Tamara M ^a   Fennell, Christopher T ^a   Hoftyzer, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Monolinguals; Television; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BACKGROUND TELEVISION; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLIER AGE OF VIEWING; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FRENCH LANGUAGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MACARTHUR BATES COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY SCORE; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLITARY VIEWING; TELEVISION HABITS QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEVISION UNINTENDED FOR CHILDREN; TELEVISION VIEWING; TELEVISION VIEWING QUALITY; TELEVISION VIEWING QUANTITY; TODDLER;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEVISION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84874533977     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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