The Heritability of Language: A Review and Metaanalysis of Twin, Adoption, and Linkage Studies

By Karin Stromswold. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Longitudinal twin study of early reading development in three countries: Preliminary results (2002, result): “The Vocabulary results are also partially at odds with the general observation from other twin studies that there is reliable heritability for vocabulary size across the age range 14 months to 13 years (Stromswold, 2001).”
Effects of Word Position and Stress on Onset Cluster Production: Evidence from Typical Development, Specific Language Impairment, and Dyslexia (2009, unknown): “Such knowledge not only provides insight into developmentally independent aspects of the language system, but, given that language disorders have a genetic basis (Stromswold 2001, Fisher 2007), is starting to contribute to uncovering the genetic origins of language.”
How social contexts support and shape language development (2006, methodology): “…of language acquisition estimate the heritability of language to be between 1 and 82%-depending on the method of study, the language outcome, and the age of the children (Dale, Dionne, Eley, & Plomin, 2000; Ganger, Pinker, Chawla, & Baker, 2002; Reznick, Corley, & Robinson, 1997; Stromswold, 2001).”
A longitudinal investigation of the role of quantity and quality of child-directed speech in vocabulary development (2012, background): “While it is acknowledged that some of this variability is likely due to genetics (see Stromswold, 2001, for a review), environmental factors also play an integral role (see Hoff, 2006, for a review).”
Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, unknown): “, 2010); (ii) heritable variation in language and in word memory (Stromswold, 2001; van Soelen et al., 2011) and in working memory (Blokland et al.”
The faculty of language: what's special about it? (2005, background): “FOXP2, moreover, is just the most precisely identified of a number of genetic loci that cause impairments of language, or related impairments such as stuttering and dyslexia (Dale et al., 1998; Stromswold, 2001; The SLI Consortium, 2002; van der Lely, Rosen, & McClelland, 1998).”
The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review (2005, background): “However, a number of candidate genes can already be identified due to their involvement in various language disorders (Stromswold 2001).”
The Genetic and Environmental Origins of Learning Abilities and Disabilities in the Early School (2007, background): “For example, a review of twin studies of learning disabilities reported twin concordances (the likelihood that one twin will be affected if the other twin is affected) of 75% for MZ twins and 43% for DZ twins for language disability and 84% and 48%, respectively, for reading disability (Stromswold, ”
Longitudinal Twin Study of Early Literacy Development: Preschool and Kindergarten Phases (2005, background): “Thus, it would be premature to declare that individual differences in the development of syntax among kindergarten children are uninfluenced by genes and predominately influenced by the home environment (see Stromswold, 2001, for an extensive review of this issue).”