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Goldfield, Beverly A.; Reznick, J. Steven – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Replies to a report on three toddlers who evidenced a late vocabulary spurt. The article argues that differences in assessing productive vocabulary and the questionable inference that size of the lexicon is a reliable indicator of the vocabulary spurt make it inappropriate to compare these children to previous studies directly measuring change in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Measurement, Data Analysis, Developmental Stages