The null effect of socio-economic status (SES) on the language and gestures of infants learning English and Polish
This study examined the effect of socio-economic status (SES) on the language and gesture use of 8- to 18-monthold infants, using two large, demographically diverse samples of children living in the UK and Poland. There was no systematic evidence for slower vocabulary or gesture growth in children from lower SES families in either sample, suggesting that substantial SES-related differences in language development do not emerge until after the first year of life.
Authors
- Katie Alcock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5219-5442)
- Caroline F. Rowland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8675-8669)
- Kerstin Meints (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-5091)
- Magdalena Kochańska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-0409)
- Magdalena Łuniewska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8168-4744)
- Grzegorz Krajewski
Institutions
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (NL)
- The Maria Grzegorzewska University (PL)
- University of Warsaw (PL)
- University of Lincoln (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja
- Published
- 2026-04-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.62.si.2
- Primary Topic
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00