The precocious two-year-old: Status of the lexicon and links to the grammar

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 563-585

  McGregor, Karla K ^a,c   Sheng, Li ^a   Smith, Bruce ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27244438224     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000905006926     Document Type: Article

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