Abstract
Birth Order, Gender Differences, and Language Development in Modern Japanese Pre-School Children
M. Yamamoto
The Possible influences of birth order and gender difference on the language development were examined using the selected ITPA. The results showed that the first born child acquired high score than the second and the third born child in the subtext of Auditory Association. This result suggests that selective caring of parents to their first born child affect only on the receptive language function but not on expressive language function. The factor of gender difference have no significant effect on language development.