scholarly journals SES effects on the use of variation sets in child-directed speech

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1423-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira TAL ◽  
Inbal ARNON
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Variation Sets

AbstractSocio-economic status (SES) impacts the amount and type of input children hear in ways that have developmental consequences. Here, we examine the effect of SES on the use of variation sets (successive utterances with partial self-repetitions) in child-directed speech (CDS). Variation sets have been found to facilitate language learning, but have been studied only in higher-SES groups. Here, we examine their use in naturalistic speech in two languages (Hebrew and English) for both low- and high-SES caregivers. We find that variation sets are more frequent in the input of high-SES caregivers in both languages, indicating that SES also impacts structural properties of CDS.

Sociolinguistic Factors Influencing English Language Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 403-424
Author(s):  
Jon Bakos
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Contemporary Work

This chapter examines processes of language variation and change that take place in all languages, with a focus on English. Sociolinguists have observed that demographic and social variables such as where someone is born, their age, gender, and socio-economic status can be relevant to how they speak. However, contemporary work indicates that there is more to how someone speaks than a few checkboxes on a survey. Who does a speaker feel empathy with and want to emulate? How does a multi-faceted sense of personal identity affect how a person speaks? How might a second language (L2) learner's sense of belonging affect their own realization of English? These are some of the questions that this chapter seeks to address.

Relation between Socio-economic Status and Motivation of Learners in Learning English as a Foreign Language

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Khansir ◽  
Naeimeh Jafarizadegan ◽  
Fatemeh Karampoor
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Global Language ◽  
The One ◽  
Learning English

The purpose of this article is to discuss Relation between Socio-Economic Status and Motivation of Learners in Learning English as a Foreign Language, in Iran.  Motivation has played an important role in global language activity, and it has been as one of the real strategies used in foreign language setting in general and in English language as a foreign or second language in particular. We are, English language teacher have never neglected motivation and its relation with socio-economic status in teaching and learning English language in classrooms. In this work, investigators selected two hundred and thirty Iranian learners who studying in third grade high school in Boushehr city. In this article, both female and male students of ten high schools were participated in order to collect data. The one of instruments of this study is designed based on Garnder’s AMTB (1985). The AMTB questionnaire utilized in the study consists of the sections: Integrative component; Motivation component; Orientation component. Another instrument of this paper is designed based on Bourdieu’s (1986) in order to collect data from family socio-economic status of students. The finding of this paper indicated that most of the independent variables especially economical capital has appositive relation with motivation in EFL learning. In addition, the results of the study revealed noticeable evidence of the existence of a strong relationship between socio-economic status and motivation in language learning (English as a FL).

Variation sets in the speech directed to toddlers in Argentinian households.SES and type of activity effects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Florencia ALAM ◽  
Celia Renata ROSEMBERG ◽  
Leandro GARBER ◽  
Alejandra STEIN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
Variation Sets ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Automatic Algorithm

Abstract The study adopts a naturalistic perspective, looking at the relationship between socio-economic status (SES), activities and variation sets in child-directed speech (CDS) to Spanish-speaking Argentinian toddlers. It aims to determine the effect of SES and type of activity on the proportion of words and utterances in variation sets and on the pragmatic function they serve in interaction. Thirty two children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hours and the middle two hours were analyzed using CLAN. We developed an automatic algorithm for variation sets extraction that compares noun, verb and adjective lexemes in successive utterances. Mixed-effects beta regression showed SES and activity type effects on the proportion of variation sets and on the pragmatic function served by variation sets. Findings revealed that the contextual variables considered impact on how interlocutors organize the information to young children at the local level of natural at home interactions.

scholarly journals Rich do not rise early: spatio-temporal patterns in the mobility networks of different socio-economic classes

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 150654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lotero ◽  
Rafael G. Hurtado ◽  
Luis Mario Floría ◽  
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Temporal Patterns ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The City

We analyse the urban mobility in the cities of Medellín and Manizales (Colombia). Each city is represented by six mobility networks, each one encoding the origin-destination trips performed by a subset of the population corresponding to a particular socio-economic status. The nodes of each network are the different urban locations whereas links account for the existence of a trip between two different areas of the city. We study the main structural properties of these mobility networks by focusing on their spatio-temporal patterns. Our goal is to relate these patterns with the partition into six socio-economic compartments of these two societies. Our results show that spatial and temporal patterns vary across these socio-economic groups. In particular, the two datasets show that as wealth increases the early-morning activity is delayed, the midday peak becomes smoother and the spatial distribution of trips becomes more localized.

Oral Language Behavior of Older Cerebral Palsied Children

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Love
Keyword(s):  
Oral Language ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Language Behavior ◽  
Hearing Acuity

A battery of six tests assessing various aspects of receptive and expressive oral language was administered to 27 cerebral palsied children and controls matched on the variables of age, intelligence, sex, race, hearing acuity, socio-economic status, and similarity of educational background. Results indicated only minimal differences between groups. Signs of deviancy in language behavior often attributed to the cerebral palsied were not observed. Although previous investigators have suggested consistent language disturbances in the cerebral palsied, evidence for a disorder of comprehension and formulation of oral symobls was not found.

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