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Thornton, E., Patalay, P., Matthews, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-9549 et al. (1 more author) (2024) Investigating how vocabulary relates to different dimensions of family socio-economic circumstance across developmental and historical time. Language Development Research, 4 (1). pp. 80-174. ISSN 2771-7976
Abstract
Social inequalities in child vocabulary persist, despite decades of efforts to understand and reduce them. Different dimensions of socioeconomic circumstances (SEC), such as parent education, income, occupational status, wealth and relative neighbourhood deprivation, are likely to represent different mechanisms of effects on child vocabulary. We investigate which aspects of SEC relate to vocabulary, and whether this is stable over developmental and historical time. Data from two large, national datasets were analysed: the 1970 British Cohort Study (born 1970; N= 14,851) and the Millennium Cohort Study (born 2000-01; N=17,070). Substantial individual differences in vocabulary (ages 3–14) were explained by multiple indicators each making a unique contribution, most notably parent education (partial R2:6.4%-8.5%), income (partial R2: 4.3%-6.4%), and occupation (partial R2: 5.3-8.1). Inequalities were generally stable over developmental and historical time. However, findings suggest a need to focus on widening inequalities both towards the start and end of compulsory schooling.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This work is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work for noncommercial purposes without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified under the terms available via the above link to the Creative Commons website. |
Keywords: | Vocabulary; Cross-cohort; Socio-economic inequalities; socio-economic inequalities; cross-cohort |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2025 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2025 14:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.34842/mhqh-9g10 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222880 |
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