Shy and soft-spoken: Shyness, pragmatic language, and socio-emotional adjustment in early childhood

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 238-254

  Coplan, Robert J ^a   Weeks, Murray ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Pragmatic language; Shyness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649556151     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.622     Document Type: Article

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