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Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) represent a breakthrough in measuring early language production. Nevertheless, the CDIs' word comprehension component may not be a valid measure, because parents report too high a word comprehension ability for their children. Suggests that administering the CDIs to parents in an interview…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Infants, Interviews, Language Acquisition
