Late language emergence in 24-month-old twins: Heritable and increased risk for late language emergence in twins

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 917-928

  Rice, Mabel L ^a   Zubrick, Stephen R ^b   Taylor, Catherine L ^c   Gayán, Javier ^c,d   Bontempo, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Bioinfosol   (Spain)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Late language emergence; Twin early grammar; Twin language; Twin zygosity effects

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84902804922     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0350)     Document Type: Article

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