Infants' spontaneous imitation of novel versus familiar words: Relations to observational and maternal report measures of their lexicons

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-426

  Masur, Elise Frank ^a   Eichorst, Doreen L ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036784199     PISSN: 0272930X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2002.0019     Document Type: Review

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