Do infant vocabulary skills predict school-age language and literacy outcomes?

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 848-856

  Duff, Fiona J ^a   Reen, Gurpreet ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a   Nation, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

family history; Infancy; language; longitudinal studies; reading

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LITERACY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; READING; UNITED KINGDOM; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84936891905     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12378     Document Type: Article

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