Stability of language in childhood
A multiage, multidomain, multimeasure, and multisource study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9790656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc H Bornstein (0000-0002-6810-8427, National Institutes of Health, corresponding author), Diane L Putnick (0000-0002-6323-749X, National Institutes of Health) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 477-491 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0025889 |
| PMID | 22004343 |
| PMCID | PMC3412562 |
| OpenAlex | W1983861888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 50 |
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 even when accounting for family socioeconomic status, maternal verbal intelligence, education, speech, tendency to respond in a socially desirable fashion, and child social competence. Stability was also equivalent for children in diverse childcare situations and for girls and boys. Across age, from the beginning of language acquisition to just before school entry, aggregating multiple age-appropriate methods and measures at each age and multiple reporters, children show a strong stability of individual differences in general language development
Competence (human resources · Developmental psychology · Language acquisition · Language development · Latent variable · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Longitudinal study · Mathematics education · Population · Socioeconomic status · Stability (learning theory · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology
Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning
Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing
Factores individuales y familiares en el Trastorno del Desarrollo del Lenguaje (TDL)
Profiles of early expressive vocabulary in children with typical and atypical language development
The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT assessment of underlying L1 abilities
Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners
Do early noun and verb production predict later verb and noun production? Theoretical implications
The development of vocabulary and grammar
Parental reports of communicative development at the age of 36 months
Sources of individual variation in Estonian toddlers’ expressive vocabulary
Examining linguistic and discourse features in oral text production and their dimensionality
The concurrent and longitudinal relationship between narrative skills and other language skills in children
Clinically depressed and typically developing mother–infant dyads
The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire
Developmental Relationships Between Early Vocabulary Acquisition, Joint Attention and Parental Supportive Behaviors
Gazing Into Language Development
Gender Differences in Early Child Development
Routine Language Intervention
Entrenchment effects in code-mixing
Supporting language and literacy development with intensive small-group interventions
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality
The Linguistic Pathways Model
Long-term stability of core language skill in children with contrasting language skills
Individual differences in L2 achievement mirror individual differences in L1 skills and L2 aptitude
Development of the N400 in infancy
Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
Advanced Structural Equation Modeling
Variability in Early Communicative Development
I.—a Biographical Sketch of an Infant
Measurement Properties of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories at Ages One and Two Years
The Relation of Preschool Child-Care Quality to Children's Cognitive and Social Developmental Trajectories through Second Grade
Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Vocabulary in Young Children
A Review and Synthesis of the Measurement Invariance Literature
Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance
Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis
A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.
Talking to children
Private speech in preschool children
The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months
Developmental and stylistic variation in the composition of early vocabulary
Assessing early communicative ability
Genetic and environmental interactions in determining the early lexicon
Mothers' and fathers' speech to their young children
Consistency in the pattern of change in mothers' speech
Evaluating quantitative measures of grammatical complexity in spontaneous speech samples
Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition
The Communicative Development Inventory-WORDS Short Form as an index of language production
What part of no do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation
Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families
Diary vs. representative checklist assessment of productive vocabulary
Naturalistic language sampling in typically developing children
Continuity in children’s literacy achievements
Specific and general language performance across early childhood
Child vocabulary across the second year
Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
Children and adolescents as producers of their own development
New Directions in Research on Language Development
The rank-order consistency of personality traits from childhood to old age
The coherence of individual development
The stability of parenting behaviors over the first 6 years of life
Language in the Crib
Maternal responsiveness to young children at three ages
The structure of language abilities at 4 years
Early vocabulary growth
Genetic and environmental influences on the rate of communicative development in the first year of life
A behavior rating scale for the preschool child
American parenting of language-learning children
Sequences in the development of competent play with peers
Comparative fit indexes in structural models
Cross-Cultural Research in Psychology
Oral language and code-related precursors to reading
Mathematical Thinking in the Social Sciences
Child/adolescent behavioral and emotional problems
The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |