How Is Emergent Writing Based on Drawing? Analyses of Children's Products and Their Sorting by Children and Mothers

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 891-905

  Levin, Iris ^a   Bus, Adriana G ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SYMBOLISM;

ART; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0142166234     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.5.891     Document Type: Article

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