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Hoff, Erika; Quinn, Jamie M.; Giguere, David – Developmental Science, 2018
A close relationship between children's vocabulary size and the grammatical complexity of their speech is well attested but not well understood. The present study used latent change score modeling to examine the dynamic relationships between vocabulary and grammar growth within and across languages in longitudinal data from 90 simultaneous…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Children
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Marchman, Virginia A.; Martinez-Sussmann, Carmen; Dale, Philip S. – Developmental Science, 2004
The fact that early lexical and grammatical acquisition are strongly correlated has been cited as evidence against the view that the language faculty is composed of dissociable and autonomous modules (Bates & Goodman, 1997). However, previous studies have not yet eliminated the possibility that lexical-grammar associations may be attributable to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Skills, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning