Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study

Cross-linguistic studies can provide information about general and language specific features of development, but relatively few such are available in literature. The main aim the present study was to investigate, from a cross-linguistic perspective, roles internal factor gender external factors birth order parental education level on development 2-year-old children. We examined 351 children growing up three European contexts: Croatian (N = 104), Estonian 141) Finnish 106). Information lexical skills word combination ability collected using short form MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories influence background these aspects investigated. No significant differences were found or among groups. These varied significantly with gender, not factors. Our findings suggest that may early more than