Open AccessThe Dimensionality of Language and Literacy in the School-Age Years
Author(s) -
Nickola Wolf Nelson,
Elena Plante,
Michele A. Anderson,
E. Brooks Applegate
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of speech, language, and hearing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-9102
pISSN - 1092-4388
DOI - 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00534
Subject(s) - psychology , literacy , sentence , population , confirmatory factor analysis , test (biology) , psycholinguistics , sample (material) , set (abstract data type) , statistics , structural equation modeling , computer science , natural language processing , demography , mathematics , cognition , paleontology , pedagogy , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , sociology , biology , programming language
This was an investigation of the dimensionality of oral and written language to test the hypothesis that a two-factor model with sound/word and sentence/discourse language levels would best fit language and literacy data for a population-based sample in the school-age years.