Causal supports for early word learning

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1243-1250

  Booth, Amy E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; RECREATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; REACTION TIME; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67650576944     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01328.x     Document Type: Article

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