When opportunity knocks twice: Two-year-olds' repetition of sentence subjects

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 617-641

  Valian, Virginia ^a   Aubry, Stephanie ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 27244445028     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000905006987     Document Type: Article

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