A curvilinear trend in naming errors as a function of early vocabulary growth

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-71

  Gershkoff Stowe, Lisa ^a   Smith, Linda B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031253948     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1997.0664     Document Type: Article

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