This pilot investigation compared the language use of mothers and their four children
with language impairment during in-home readings of two storybook genres.
Mother-child dyads repeatedly read two book genres, narrative-only and narrative +
manipulative storybooks. The language output during the repeated readings was
transcribed and analysed for utterance and discourse features. Mother language
output did not vary across book genre, whereas the children demonstrated greater
mean length of utterance and increased percentage of question use during the
narrative + manipulative book interactions relative to narrative-only interactions.
Implications of these findings are discussed.
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