Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 689-705

  Hamilton, Antonia ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a   Schafer, Graham ^a  

^a Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034293405     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000900004414     Document Type: Article

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