Referential style at thirteen months: why age-defined cross-sectional measures are inappropriate for the study of strategy differences in early language development
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language
- Vol. 17 (3) , 625-631
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900010916
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between cross-sectional measures of referential style taken at 1;1 and measures based on the first 50 words in 12 first-born children. Since no significant relationship is found it is argued that age-defined cross-sectional measures are inappropriate for the study of strategy differences in early language development because they confound such differences with variation due to differences in development level.Keywords
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