Choose the proper words to fill in the blanksIn families with two working parents,fathers may have more impact on a child’s language development than mothers,a new study suggests.Researchers ___1___ 92 families form 11 child care centers before the

Choose the proper words to fill in the blanksIn families with two working parents,fathers may have more impact on a child’s language development than mothers,a new study suggests.Researchers ___1___ 92 families form 11 child care centers before the
Choose the proper words to fill in the blanks
In families with two working parents,fathers may have more impact on a child’s language development than mothers,a new study suggests.
Researchers ___1___ 92 families form 11 child care centers before their children were a year old,interviewing each to establish income,level of education and child care arrangements.Overall,it was a group of well-class families,with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2,researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents,___2 all of their speech.The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
The scientists measured the ___3___ number of utterance (话语) of the parents,the number of different words they used,the complexity of their sentences and other ___4___ of their speech.On average,fathers spoke less than mothers did,but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked.
Finally,the researchers ___5___ the children’s speech at age 3,using a standardized language test.The only predictors of high scores on the test were the mother’s level of education,the ___6___ of child care and the number of different words the father used.
The researchers are ___7___ why the father’s speech,and not the mother’s,had an effect.
“It’s well ___8___ that the mother’s language does have an impact,” said Nadya Pancsofar,the lead author of the study.It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had ___9___ had a strong influence on their children’s speech development,Ms.Pancsofar said,“or it may be that mothers are __ 10___ in a way we didn’t measure in the study.”
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