Buzzsaws and blueprints: What children need (or don't need) to learn language

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 715-726

  Sabbagh, Mark A ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034297328     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500090000430X     Document Type: Review

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