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Language Development

and Learning to Read

Language Development

and Learning to Read

The Scientiﬁc Study of How Language Development

Affects Reading Skill

Diane McGuinness

A Bradford Book

The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

( 2005 Diane McGuinness

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McGuinness, Diane.

Language development and learning to read : the scientiﬁc study of how

language development affects reading skill / Diane McGuinness.

p. cm.

‘‘A Bradford book.’’

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-262-13452-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Reading—Research. 2. Language acquisition—Research. I. Title.

LB1050.6.M34 2005

428.4—dc22

2004062118

10987654321