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b'This episode revisits the concept of the 30 Million Word Gap concept, https://yourparentingmojo.com/wordgap/ (which we first covered in an interview with Dr. Doug Sperry) a few weeks back.\\nAfter she heard that I was going to talk with Dr. Sperry, Dr. Roberta Golinkoff \\u2013 https://yourparentingmojo.com/becomingbrilliant/ (with whom we discussed her book Becoming Brilliant) almost two years ago now \\u2013 asked to come back on to present a rebuttal. We\\u2019re going to learn a lot more about the importance of child-directed speech!\\nThis episode serves two purposes: it helps us to understand another aspect of the 30 Million Word Gap, and it also demonstrates pretty clearly that scientists \\u2013 both of whom have the best interests of children at heart \\u2013 see very different ways of achieving that end.\\n\\nReferences\\nAdair, J.K., Colegrave, K.S-S, and McManus. M.E. (2017). How the word gap argument negatively impacts young children of Latinx immigrants\\u2019 conceptualizations of learning. Harvard Educational Review 87(3), 309-334.\\nAvineri, N., Johnson, E., Brice\\u2010Heath, S., McCarty, T., Ochs, E., Kremer\\u2010Sadlik, T., Blum, S., Zentella, A.C., Rosa, J., Flores, N., Alim, H.S., and Paris, D. (2015). Invited forum: Bridging the \\u201clanguage gap\\u201d. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 25(1), 66-86.\\nBassok, D., Latham, S., and Rorem, A. (2016). Is Kindergarten the new first grade? AERA Open 1(4), 1-31.\\nBaugh, J. (2017). Meaning-less difference: Exposing fallacies and flaws in \\u201cThe Word Gap\\u201d hypothesis that conceal a dangerous \\u201clanguage trap\\u201d for low-income American families and their children. International Multilingual Research Journal 11(1), 39-51.\\nBrennan, W. (2018, April). Julie Washington\\u2019s quest to get schools to respect African American English. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-code-switcher/554099/\\nCorrea-Chavez, M., and Rogoff, B. (2009). Children\\u2019s attention to interactions directed to others: Guatemalan and European American Patterns. Developmental Psychology 45(3), 630-641.\\nCraig, H.K., and Washington, J.A. (2004). Grade-related changes in the production of African American English. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 47(2), 450-463.\\nGee, J.P. (1985). The narrativization of experience in the oral style. Journal of Education 167(1), 9-57\\nGenishi, C., and Dyson, A. (2009). Children, language, and literacy: Diverse learners in diverse times. New York: Teachers College Press.\\nGolinkoff, R.M., Hoff, E., Rowe, M.L., Tamis-LeMonda, C., and Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press). Language matters: Denying the existence of the 30 Million Word Gap has serious consequences. Child Development.\\nLee-James, R., and Washington, J.A. (2018). Language skills of bidialectal and bilingual children: Considering a strengths-based perspective. Topics in Language Disorders 38(1), 5-26.\\nLong, H. (2017, September 15). African Americans are the only U.S. racial group earning less than in 2000. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-african-americans-income-census-20170918-story.html\\nNAEP (2017). National student group scores and score gaps (Reading). NAEP. Retrieved from: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_2017/#nation/gaps?grade=4 (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_2017/#nation/gaps?grade=4)\\nRogoff, B., Mistry, J., Goncu, A., ,and Mosier, C. (1993). Guided participation in cultural activity by toddlers and caregivers. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Series No. 236, 58(8), v-173.\\nWard, M.C. (1971). Them children: A study in language learning. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.\\nWashington, J.A., Branum-Martin, L., Sun, C., and Lee-James, R. (2018). The impact of dialect density on the growth of language and reading in African American chi...'