Meredith Rowe

General Research Area:

Understanding factors that contribute to children's language and literacy development; parental beliefs and parent-child interaction; gesture; at-risk/underprivileged populations; research methods in child language research

Selected Publications:

Rowe, M.L., Raudenbush, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (In press) The pace of vocabulary growth helps predict later vocabulary skill. Child Development.

Rowe, M. L. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  (2009). Differences in early gesture explain SES disparities in child vocabulary size at school entry.  Science, 323, 951-953.

Rowe, M. L., Levine, S. C., Fisher, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009).  Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury? Developmental Psychology, 45, 90-102

Rowe, M. L. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009). Early gesture selectively predicts later language learning. Developmental Science, 12, 182-187.

Rowe, M. L. (2008). Child-directed speech: Relation to socioeconomic status, knowledge of child development, and child vocabulary skill. Journal of Child Language, 35, 185-205.

Links:

Curriculum Vitae
Language Development and Parenting Lab


Email:

mrowe@umd.edu
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