Sara Quinn|Seamus Donnelly|Evan Kidd
The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review
Australian National University|Australian National University|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Australian National University
developmental relationship symbolic play language long proposed going far back writings piaget vygotsky current paper build recent qualitative reviews literature reporting first quantitative analysis relationship conducted threelevel metaanalysis past studies investigated relationship symbolic play language acquisition thirtyfive studies n 6848 met criteria inclusion overall observed significant smalltomedium association two domains r 35 several moderating variables included analyses including study design longitudinal concurrent ii manner language measured comprehension production iii age relationship measured effect weakly moderated three variables overall association robust suggesting symbolic play language closely related development