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. 2023 May 31:14:1170303.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1170303. eCollection 2023.

The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: updates from the CDI Advisory Board

Virginia A Marchman  1 , Philip S Dale  2
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The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: updates from the CDI Advisory Board

Virginia A Marchman et al. Front Psychol. .

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Keywords: CDI-CAT; MacArthur-Bates CDI; Web-CDI; Wordbank; language development; parent report.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors of this paper are members of the MacArthur-Bates CDI Advisory Board, a non-profit consortium of researchers. Funds received from the sale of the American English and Mexican Spanish CDI instruments are placed in a non-profit account and used to fund research, assessment, and applications of CDI instruments. None of the Board members directly receive compensation from the sale of CDI instruments.

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Figure 1
Percentile values (10, 25, 50, 75, and 90th) for words produced on the American English MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences form from Fenson et al. (; gray lines) and Marchman et al. (; dark lines).
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