What's in a Name: Children's Knowledge about the Letters in Their Own Names

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-116

  Treiman, Rebecca ^a   Broderick, Victor ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NAMES; READING;

EID: 0032134440     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1998.2448     Document Type: Article

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