Girls talk about dolls and boys about cars? Analyses of group and individual variation in Danish children's first words

First Language

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-85

  Wehberg, Sonja ^a,b,c   Vach, Werner ^a,c,d   Bleses, Dorthe ^a,b,d   Thomsen, Pia ^a,b,e   Madsen, Thomas O ^a,b,d   Basbøll, Hans ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Institute of Language and Communication

^c Department of Statistics ^*

^d Center for Child Language

^e Research Group for Language Comprehension and Language Development

Author keywords

Birth order; Early lexicon; Gender; Longitudinal study; Macarthur Bates CDI; Parental reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349088621     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707081729     Document Type: Article

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