Growth of finiteness in the third year of life: Replication and predictive validity

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 887-900

  Hadley, Pamela A ^a   Rispoli, Matthew ^a   Holt, Janet K ^b   Fitzgerald, Colleen ^a   Bahnsen, Alison ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c Des Moines Public Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Finiteness; Grammar; Growth modeling; Language development

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84902812383     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/2013_JSLHR-L-13-0008     Document Type: Article

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