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Peer reviewedMaarit, Silven; Ahtola, Annarilla; Pekka, Niemi – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Reports how children's language skills and mothers' book-reading strategies predict mastery of word inflections in a sample of Finnish children. Three theoretical models were tested on the longitudinal data using path analyses. Suggests direct developmental continuity from producing words and multiword utterances on later inflectional growth, but…
Descriptors: Child Language, Finnish, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
