Acquisition of mental state language in Spanish children: A longitudinal study of the relationship between the production of mental verbs and linguistic development

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 454-466

  Pascual, Belén ^a   Aguado, Gerardo ^b   Sotillo, María ^c   Masdeu, Jose C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPAIN;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45349084795     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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