Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30‐million‐word gap by
claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech than Hart and …

Amid growing controversy about the oft‐cited “30‐million‐word gap,” this investigation uses
language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test …

Narratives, also called stories, can be found in conversations, children's play interactions,
reading material, and television programs. From infancy to adulthood, narrative …

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be
able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children …

This systematic review provides an examination of the quality, efficacy, and common
features of oral narrative interventions on the narratives of children with language disorder …

The discipline called “cultural psychology” has been experiencing a major revival since the
early 1980s. The aim of cultural psychology is to document historical and cross‐cultural …

Many parents delight in their child's imaginary companion as evidence of a lively
imagination and creative mind. At the same time, parents sometimes wonder if the imaginary …

The goal of this study was to determine how personal storytelling functions as a socializing
practice within the family context in middle‐class Taiwanese and middle‐class European …

This paper offers a case study of the Life History of the Word Gap (WG) Story, the most
prominent deficit discourse of the contemporary era. Mindful of mounting critiques of deficit …

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating studies conducted in a variety
of cross-cultural settings where children learn language and literacy with siblings …