Acquisition of early words from single-word and sentential contexts

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 190-198

  Trehub, Sandra E ^a   Shenfield, Tali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33846697275     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00545.x     Document Type: Review

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