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THE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF 5‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN
Author(s) -
SAMPSON OLIVE C.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1959.tb01502.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , fluency , vocabulary , language development , linguistics , mathematics education , philosophy
S ummary .1.— The aim of this research was to continue the study of speech development reported in 1956. The same fifty children (twenty‐five boys and twenty‐five girls), representative of all elements in the community, were followed up at the age of 5 years. They were given Intelligence, Vocabulary and Language tests. Most were seen in school. 2.— Every child had made progress and this progress appears to be related to his family's occupational status and his own general intelligence. 3.— When the earlier and present ratings were compared, the correlation was positive but somewhat low. 4.— There was some evidence in the performances of the 5‐year‐old children tending to indicate the boys' superiority in precision and the girls' in fluency of expression, but on the whole the sex differences were small.