Maternal verbal sensitivity and child language comprehension

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-258

  Baumwell, Lisa ^a   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^b   Bornstein, Marc H ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Child language comprehension; Maternal intrusiveness; Maternal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116837     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90026-6     Document Type: Article

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