Live action: Can young children learn verbs from video?

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1360-1375

  Roseberry, Sarah ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^a   Parish Morris, Julia ^a   Golinkoff, Roberta M ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 70349226737     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01338.x     Document Type: Article

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