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The intergenerational transmission of language skill

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ID5614213
AutoresAlice Sullivan (0000-0002-0690-8728, Department of Social Science Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) UCL Institute of Education London UK, autor correspondente), Vanessa Moulton (0000-0002-7400-2522, Department of Social Science Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) UCL Institute of Education London UK), Elizabeth Fitzsimons (0000-0003-4466-5963, Department of Social Science Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) UCL Institute of Education London UK), Emla Fitzsimons (Department of Social Science Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) UCL Institute of Education London UK)
Ano2021
Volume72
Fascículo2
Páginas207-232
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-4446.12780
PMID33595850
OpenAlexW3131777703
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas60

This paper examines the relationship between parents' and children's language skills for a nationally representative birth cohort born in the United Kingdom-the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We investigate both socioeconomic and ethnic differentials in children's vocabulary scores and the role of differences in parents' vocabulary scores in accounting for these. We find large vocabulary gaps between highly educated and less educated parents, and between ethnic groups. Nevertheless, socioeconomic and ethnic gaps in vocabulary scores are far wider among the parents than among their children. Parental vocabulary is a powerful mediator of inequalities in offspring's vocabulary scores at age 14, and also a powerful driver of change in language skills between the ages of five and 14. Once we account for parental vocabulary, no ethnic minority group of young people has a negative "vocabulary gap" compared to whites

Cohort · Cohort study · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Millennium Cohort Study (United States · Offspring · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance

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Intervalo de citações2021 - 2026 (6)
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