The interaction of language and thought in children's language acquisition: A crosslinguistic study

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-121

  Weist, Richard M ^a   Lyytinen, Paula ^b   Wysocka, Jolanta ^c   Atanassova, Marja ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; POLAND; SPACE PERCEPTION; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031062906     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000996003017     Document Type: Article

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