ArticleThe British journal of sociology2021
The intergenerational transmission of language skill.
Article in The British journal of sociology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- A Bidimensional Model of Language Transmission in Bilingual Families: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Childhood Maternal Warmth, Social Safety Schemas, and Adolescent Mental and Physical Health.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Article
- Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- Family language policy and heritage language transmission in Pakistan-the intersection of family dynamics, ethnic identity and cultural practices on language proficiency and maintenance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Breastfeeding, cognitive ability, and residual confounding: A comment on studies by Pereyra-Elìas et al.PloS one · 2024Article
- Relative heritage language and majority language use before school start explains variance in 2Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The intergenerational transmission of language skill.The British journal of sociology · 2021Article
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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.
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