Mean Length of Utterance before words and grammar: Longitudinal trends and developmental implications of infant vocalizations

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 495-527

  Fagan, Mary K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649950268     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009070     Document Type: Article

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