Early lexical and syntactic development in Quebec French and English: Implications for cross-linguistic and bilingual assessment

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-278

  Thordardottir, Elin T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Children; Cross linguistic; English; French; Language development; Lexical development; MLU; Syntactic development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; QUEBEC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 21244456415     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820410001729655     Document Type: Article

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