Why early linguistic milestones are delayed in children with williams syndrome: Late onset of hand banging as a possible rate-limiting constraint on the emergence of canonical babbling

Developmental Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 158-164

  Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0035532888     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00161     Document Type: Article

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