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The Expectation and Parentage of Twins A Study on the Language Development of Twin Infants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Britta Alin-Åkerman
Britta Alin-Åkerman*
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Research, Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden
*
Fiskargatan 14, S-116 45 Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract

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This is a follow-up study aiming to describe personality development of twins and possible differences at different ages. The investigation was conducted at the Mother Clinic in the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. This report describes the language development of 35 twin pairs at 9 months of age. The development values show that no greater differences exist for girls between twins and singletons. The language result is however lower. The boys, on the other hand, have considerably lower results both on total development scale and on the language scale.

Keywords

Language developmentPersonality developmentParents of twins
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 225 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1987

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