Private speech in preschool children: Developmental stability and change, across-task consistency, and relations with classroom behaviour

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 583-608

  Winsler, Adam ^c   De León, Jesus René ^a   Wallace, Beverly A ^a   Carlton, Martha P ^b   Willson Quayle, Angela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIVACY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECORDING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PRIVACY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TAPE RECORDING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0042380003     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000903005671     Document Type: Article

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