Lexical diversity and productivity in French preschooolers developmental and biosocial aspects by developmental, gender and sociocultural factors

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-58

  Le Normand, Marie Thérèse ^a   Parisse, Christophe ^b   Cohen, Henri ^c  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

French language; Gender; Lexical diversity; MLU; Preschoolers; Sociocultural

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TAPE RECORDING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 37549068919     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701669945     Document Type: Article

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