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Despite consensus in the developmental literature regarding the role of executive function (EF) skills in supporting the development of language skills during the preschool years, we know relatively little about the associations between EF skills, including all EF components, and vocabulary skills among preschool‐aged children. In this paper, we address this gap by fitting structural equation models to examine the associations between beginning‐of‐preschool EF and end‐of‐preschool receptive vocabulary, as well as the association between beginning‐of‐preschool receptive vocabulary and end‐of‐preschool EF skills, to data from 400 preschool‐aged children. We find that EF skills at the beginning of preschool are a significant predictor of receptive vocabulary skills at the end of preschool, controlling for receptive vocabulary at the beginning of preschool. However, receptive vocabulary skills at the beginning of …