Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities.
This study investigated the etiology of individual differences in Chinese language and reading skills in 312 typically developing Chinese twin pairs aged from 3 to 11 years (228 pairs of monozygotic twins and 84 pairs of dizygotic twins; 166 male pairs and 146 female pairs). Children were individual...
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| author | Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow Connie Suk-Han Ho Simpson Wai-Lap Wong Mary M Y Waye Dorothy V M Bishop |
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| description | This study investigated the etiology of individual differences in Chinese language and reading skills in 312 typically developing Chinese twin pairs aged from 3 to 11 years (228 pairs of monozygotic twins and 84 pairs of dizygotic twins; 166 male pairs and 146 female pairs). Children were individually given tasks of Chinese word reading, receptive vocabulary, phonological memory, tone awareness, syllable and rhyme awareness, rapid automatized naming, morphological awareness and orthographic skills, and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices. All analyses controlled for the effects of age. There were moderate to substantial genetic influences on word reading, tone awareness, phonological memory, morphological awareness and rapid automatized naming (estimates ranged from .42 to .73), while shared environment exerted moderate to strong effects on receptive vocabulary, syllable and rhyme awareness and orthographic skills (estimates ranged from .35 to .63). Results were largely unchanged when scores were adjusted for nonverbal reasoning as well as age. Findings of this study are mostly similar to those found for English, a language with very different characteristics, and suggest the universality of genetic and environmental influences across languages. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-08d67da7cd8148c2bfaf87903f685f4b2025-08-20T03:45:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032011-02-0162e1664010.1371/journal.pone.0016640Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities.Bonnie Wing-Yin ChowConnie Suk-Han HoSimpson Wai-Lap WongMary M Y WayeDorothy V M BishopThis study investigated the etiology of individual differences in Chinese language and reading skills in 312 typically developing Chinese twin pairs aged from 3 to 11 years (228 pairs of monozygotic twins and 84 pairs of dizygotic twins; 166 male pairs and 146 female pairs). Children were individually given tasks of Chinese word reading, receptive vocabulary, phonological memory, tone awareness, syllable and rhyme awareness, rapid automatized naming, morphological awareness and orthographic skills, and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices. All analyses controlled for the effects of age. There were moderate to substantial genetic influences on word reading, tone awareness, phonological memory, morphological awareness and rapid automatized naming (estimates ranged from .42 to .73), while shared environment exerted moderate to strong effects on receptive vocabulary, syllable and rhyme awareness and orthographic skills (estimates ranged from .35 to .63). Results were largely unchanged when scores were adjusted for nonverbal reasoning as well as age. Findings of this study are mostly similar to those found for English, a language with very different characteristics, and suggest the universality of genetic and environmental influences across languages.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016640&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow Connie Suk-Han Ho Simpson Wai-Lap Wong Mary M Y Waye Dorothy V M Bishop Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. PLoS ONE |
| title | Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. |
| title_full | Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. |
| title_fullStr | Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. |
| title_short | Genetic and environmental influences on Chinese language and reading abilities. |
| title_sort | genetic and environmental influences on chinese language and reading abilities |
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