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SUBMITTER: Friend M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296876 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Friend Margaret M Smolak Erin E Patrucco-Nanchen Tamara T Poulin-Dubois Diane D Zesiger Pascal P
Developmental psychology 20181025 1
The present research extends recent work on the prediction of preschool language skills by exploring prediction from decontextualized vocabulary comprehension. Vocabulary comprehension was a stronger predictor than parent-reported production, yielding a quadrupling of variance accounted for relative to prior studies. Parallel studies (Studies 1 and 2) are reported for two linguistically and geographically distinct samples. In both samples, decontextualized vocabulary comprehension late in the se ...[more]