Young children's expectation of competence in word learning

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 321-338

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Shemer, Ginnat ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33744805075     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007343     Document Type: Article

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