The Vocal Fries

Don't Mind the Gap


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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nelson Flores, newly minted Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the so-called 30 million word gap, why it is problematic, and how better to think about the language children hear around them.

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