The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1368-1378

  Hoff, Erika ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0142041417     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00612     Document Type: Review

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