Birth Order Effects on Early Language Development: Do Secondborn Children Learn from Overheard Speech?

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 621-634

  Oshima Takane, Yuriko ^a   Goodz, Elizabeth ^a   Derevensky, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0030548959     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01755.x     Document Type: Article

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