African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-140

  Hammer, Carol Scheffner ^a   Weiss, Amy L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

African american; Infant; Language development; Mother; Parental beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034394523     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0902.126     Document Type: Article

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