Learning words through overhearing

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 416-430

  Akhtar, Nameera ^a   Jipson, Jennifer ^a   Callanan, Maureen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035290817     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00287     Document Type: Article

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