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Language Socialization Across Cultures.
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This article is published in Psyccritiques.The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Socialization (Marxism).read more
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Tales Of Language Loss And Language Maintenance: Elicited Ancestral Language Use In Lazuri-Turkish And Turkish-German Caregiver-Child Dyads During Structured Play
Abstract: iii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Psychology in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In language contact situations parents who grew up acquiring their ancestral language (AL) often have to make choices about the fate of AL transmission by negotiating resources and beliefs about what is best for their children's future. Their language practices contribute to AL loss or maintenance, affecting developmental pathways for bilingualism. The situation faced by speakers of Lazuri— a Grade 2, severely endangered South Caucasian language that is no longer used in child-directed speech illustrates a global phenomenon of rapid language loss within indigenous communities due to linguistic assimilation to a dominant language (DL). AL loss is associated with parental language socialization goals (e.g., to prepare children for formal education in the DL), as well as socioeconomic and historical factors. Study 1 examined AL production in Lazuri-Turkish caregiver-child dyads (N=62, M child age=30.0 months, SD= 9.4, range 12-48 months) as a function of caregiver generation (i.e., comparing 30 grandparent-child vs. 32 parent-child dyads). Dyads were recruited from Lazona communities in Fındıklı and Ardaşen, Turkey. Study 2 compared a subset of the parent-child dyads from Study 1 with age-matched Turkish-German parent-child dyads (N=12, M child age=29 mo, range 16-46) recruited from the Kreuzberg community of Berlin. The Berlin families tend to maintain usage of AL (i.e., Turkish) in child-directed speech, and served as a base of comparison with the Lazuri communities where the DL has replaced the AL in communication with children. All parents completed a short demographic and language use questionnaire. Across studies, dyads were v instructed to converse in their AL (i.e., Lazuri in Lazona, Turkish in Berlin) while engaging with animal farm and tea-party toy sets (10 min each). The elicitation task thus provided an assessment of caregiver language fluency in the AL as well as a semi-structured context for examining cultural variation in caregiver-child communication. task indicated AL loss with grandparents and parents interacting similarly with children: Caregivers spoke Lazuri in only 58.5%, while the remainder of the child-directed speech was in Turkish (26.0%) or mixed languages (15.4%). In contrast, children lacked Lazuri fluency and predominantly spoke Turkish (82.8%) with fewer Lazuri (14.8%) or mixed utterances (2.4%): 79.8% of children's Lazuri utterances were imitative, as opposed to spontaneous speech (21.2%). Caregivers combined Lazuri utterances with deictic gestures more often than …
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Child rearing through social interaction on Rossel Island, PNG
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TL;DR: This article investigated the daily lives of Rossel children and investigated how these influence their development of prosociality and their socialization into culturally shaped roles and characters, and argued that detailed attention to the local socio-cultural contexts of childrearing is an important antidote to the tendency to emphasize universals of child development.
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Temporal Coordination in Mother-Infant Vocal Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Comparison.
TL;DR: Examining the temporal structure of vocal interactions in 38 mother–infant dyads in the first two years across two cultures revealed that both mothers and infants engaged in conversational alternation, with mothers acting similarly across cultures.
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