The prevalence and the weakness of an early name mapping preference

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-147

  Evey, Julie A ^b   Merriman, William E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031996089     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500099700336X     Document Type: Article

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