Connecting Preschoolers' Spontaneous Speech Patterns to Future Language Skills: A 3-Year Concurrent and Longitudinal Cohort Study of Canonical Proportion as a Developmental Index.
PURPOSE Understanding how children's spontaneous language behavior relates to standardized metrics of speech and language remains a crucial challenge in studies of language acquisition and clinical assessment. Traditional lab- and clinic-based paradigms are time- and resource-intensive and may not fully capture a child...