Language input in late infancy scaffolds emergent literacy skills and predicts reading related white matter development
Weiss, Huber, Ramírez, Corrigan, Yarnykh, Kuhl
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Longitudinal studies provide the unique opportunity to test whether early language provides a scaffolding for the acquisition of the ability to read. This study tests the hypothesis that parental language input during the first 2 years of life predicts em