TY - JOUR TI - Temperament and language: Relations from toddlerhood to middle childhood AU - Slomkowski, Cheryl L. AU - Nelson, Keith AU - Dunn, Judy AU - Plomin, Robert T2 - Developmental Psychology AB - Examined contemporaneous and longitudinal relations between temperament and language in toddlerhood and middle childhood. Language was assessed using the Sequenced Inventory of Communicative Development in 229 children at age 2 and in 212 of these children at age 3. Observers rated dimensions of the children's temperament at age 2 on the Infant Behavior Record. In addition, 164 of these children were administered a battery of language measures after the completion of 1st grade. Affect–extraversion at age 2 made a unique contribution to individual differences in both receptive and expressive language at age 3 and to receptive language skills at age 7. DA - 1992/// PY - 1992 DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.28.6.1090 DP - APA PsycNET VL - 28 IS - 6 SP - 1090 EP - 1095 SN - 1939-0599(Electronic);0012-1649(Print) ST - Temperament and language ER -