The correspondence between parent report and child performance for receptive and expressive vocabulary beyond infancy

First Language

Volumn 20, Issue 59, 2000, Pages 141-159

  Ring, Erin Dyer ^a,b   Fenson, Larry ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 0038538873     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014272370002005902     Document Type: Article

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