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Combinatorial play, conceptual development, and early multiword speech. Shore, CeciliaView Profile. Developmental Psychology22.2 (Mar 1986): 184-190.

Explored the relations among combinatorial capacities in language, symbolic play, blockbuilding, and nonsemantic action sequences of 30 18–24 mo olds and assessed the developmental level of a selected subset of concepts. Ss' mothers completed a maternal interview, and videotapes of Ss completing a range of extension, symbolic play, nonsemantic, and blockbuilding tasks were coded by 2 independent raters and analyzed. Results show that Ss' multiword performances were predicted by the number of exemplars to which the S extended the target words; the complexity of symbolic play with counterconventional toys, and the number of different block structures the Ss built, some of which were not modeled. Multivariate analyses indicated that these tasks predicted similar variance in language, indicating possible shared abilities. (28 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)

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