Receptive grammatical knowledge of familiar content words and inflection in 16-month-olds

Infancy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-29

  Soderstrom, Melanie ^a   White, Katherine S ^a   Conwell, Erin ^a   Morgan, James L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547683922     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00231.x     Document Type: Article

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