Development of precursors to speech in infants exposed to two languages

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 407-425

  Oller, D Kimbrough ^a   Eilers, Rebecca E ^a   Urbano, Richard ^a   Cobo Lewis, Alan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEWBORN; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTILINGUALISM; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031156509     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000997003097     Document Type: Article

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