Baby's First 10 Words

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 929-938

  Tardif, Twila ^a,b   Fletcher, Paul ^c   Liang, Weilan ^d   Zhang, Zhixiang ^d   Kaciroti, Niko ^b   Marchman, Virginia A ^e  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; English; infants; vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 48949118099     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.929     Document Type: Article

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