Family relationships during infancy and later mother and father vocabulary use with young children

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-503

  Pancsofar, Nadya ^a   Vernon Feagans, Lynne ^a   Odom, Erica ^a   Roe, Jacqueline R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Family relationships; Father vocabulary; Marital relationship; Mother vocabulary; Parent child interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149137058     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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