Object name learning and object perception: A deficit in late talkers

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 223-240

  Jones, Susan S ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 14644439137     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006646     Document Type: Article

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