Temperamental predictors of linguistic style during multiword acquisition

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-103

  Dixon Jr , Wallace E ^a   Shore, Cecilia ^b  

^a HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Individual differences; Infants; Linguistic style; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030704724     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90065-5     Document Type: Article

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