Individual differences in infant skills as predictors of child-caregiver joint attention and language

Social Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 302-315

  Markus, Jessica ^b   Mundy, Peter ^b   Morales, Michael ^a   Delgado, Christine E F ^c   Yale, Marygrace ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Joint attention; Language development; Mother child interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034361460     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00127     Document Type: Article

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