Immigrant differences in school-age children's verbal trajectories: A look at four racial/ethnic groups

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1359-1374

  Leventhal, Tama ^a   Xue, Yange ^b   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIGRATION; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33749011960     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00940.x     Document Type: Article

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