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<div>Dear Childs-readers,</div>
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<div>I have been fortunate to have heard from several Twins experts
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<div>response to my question about Twin Language and language
acquisition. Here are some good references for those of you who are
in to this subject.<font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"> Stay
in touch, twin people!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">On the Internet,
you can find:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Behavioral Genetics
at Boulder Colorado has done a number<br>
of important twin studies on aspects of literacy and phonological
awareness<br>
development in dyslexics that have been influential. It's a very
stong<br>
department and I'll bet they have other studies of language
development.<br>
Visit their site on<br>
http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/<br>
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They seem to be at the forefront of methods for twin studies:<br>
http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/twins2000/</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">See also<br>
<http://www.pitt.edu/~jganger/cv.3.htm>ht<span
></span>tp://www.pitt.edu/~jganger/cv.3.htm<br>
and</font></div>
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color="#000000"><http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/j/g/j<span
></span>ganger/Public/ourhome.html>http://web.mit<span
></span>.edu/afs/athena/user/j/g/jganger/Public/o<span
></span>urhome.html</font></div>
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<div>Articles:</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">*Bishop, D. V. M.,
Bishop, S. J., Bright, P., James, C., Delaney, T., &<br>
Tallal, P. (1999). Different origin of auditory and phonological
processing<br>
problems in children<br>
with language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Journal of
Speech,<br>
Language and Hearing Research, 42, 155-168.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Bishop, D.V.M.
(1997). Pre- and Perinatal hazards and Family Background in Children
with Specific Language Impairments: A study of twins, Brain and
Language, 56, 1-26.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Bishop, D.V.M.,
Bishop, S.J. (1998). "Twin Language": A Risk Factor for
Language Impairment? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 41, 150-160.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Dodd, B., McEvoy,
S. (1994). Twin Language or phonological disorder? Journal of Child
Language, 21, 273-289.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">*Dale, P. S.,
Simonoff, E., Bishop, D. V., Eley, T. C., Oliver, B., Price,<br>
T. S., Purcell, S., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. (1998). Genetic
influence<br>
on language delay in<br>
two-year-old children. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 324-8. (RSL
OpenShelf</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Physiol. Per.
5b)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Deutsch, W.,
Wagner, A., Burchardt, R., Schulz, N. & Nakath, J.
(1997).</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Person in the
language of singletons, siblings and twins. in S. Levinson &<br>
M. bowerman (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual
development.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Malmstrom, P.M.,
Silva, M.N. (1986). Twin talk: manifestations of twin status in the
speech of toddlers, Journal of Child language, 13, 293-304.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">McMahon, S., Dodd,
B. (1997). A comparison of the expressive communication skills of
triplet, twin and singleton children, European Journal of disorders
of Communication, 32, 328-345.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Savic, S. (1980).
How Twins Learn to Talk. Academic Press Inc.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Zazzo, R. (1960).
Les Jumeaux, le couple et la personne. PUF, Paris.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Hope that you can
use some of this and thank you .</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Best</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Pia
Thomsen</font></div>
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