ArticleChild development2026
The role of mothers' speech for children's education beyond the early years.
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We tested the extent to which mothers' speech contributes to the transmission of family background inequality in education. In 894 families (93.1% White), representative of the full range of Britain's socioeconomic conditions, we quantified mothers' vocabulary sophistication, lexical diversity, and grammatical complexity from 10-min-long audio-recorded interviews. Mothers' vocabulary sophistication significantly predicted children's (49% males) cognition, literacy, and educational achievement from ages 5 to 12 years, accounting for 2%-5% of the variance. After adjusting for mothers' education and household income, these effects reduced to 1% and 2% or became nonsignificant. Our findings suggest vocabulary sophistication contributes only modestly to the transmission of family background inequality in education.
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