Genetic influences in different aspects of language development: The etiology of language skills in 4.5-year-old twins

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 632-651

  Kovas, Yulia ^a   Hayiou Thomas, Marianna E ^a   Oliver, Bonamy ^a   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^b   Dale, Philip S ^c   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 19744363278     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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