Stability of language in childhood: a multiage, multidomain, multimeasure, and multisource study.

ABSTRACT: The stability of language across childhood is traditionally assessed by exploring longitudinal relations between individual language measures. However, language encompasses many domains and varies with different sources (child speech, parental report, experimenter assessment). This study evaluated individual variation in multiple age-appropriate measures of child language derived from multiple sources and stability between their latent variables in 192 young children across more than 2 years. Structural equation modeling demonstrated the loading of multiple measures of child language from different sources on single latent variables of language at ages 20 months and 48 months. A large stability coefficient (r = .84) obtained between the 2 language latent variables. This stability obtained

SUBMITTER: Bornstein MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3412562 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature