Phonological and semantic devices in very young children's poems: A cross-cultural study

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 389-416

  Dowker, Ann ^a   Krasowicz, Grazyna ^b   Pinto, Giuliana ^b   Roazzi, Antonio ^b   Smith, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Oxford ^*

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