Date of Award
8-13-2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Seyda Ozcaliskan
Abstract
Children show differences in the way they speak and gesture.Parentsalso show variability in the way they produce speech when interacting with their singleton sons vs. daughters—a pattern that we do not yet know extend to boy-boy vs. girl-girl twins. In this study, we ask whether there is evidence of sex (girls vs. boys) or group (singletons vs. twins) differences in parents’ speech and gesture production, and whether these differences also become evident in different twin dyads (girl-girl, boy-boy, girl-boy) difference? Our results largely showed no evidence of a sex or dyad-composition difference in either parent speech or gesture, but evidence of a group difference in gesture, with the parents of singletons providing greater amount, diversity, and complexity of gestures than parents of twins in one-on-one interactions. These results suggest that differences in parent input to singletons vs. twins might become evident initially in gesture.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/14834428
Recommended Citation
Pinar, Ebru, "Effect of Child Sex and Sibling Composition on Parental Verbal and Nonverbal Input." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2019.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/14834428
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