What is word understanding for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 895-908

  Styles, Suzy ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; OCULOGRAPHY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE TESTS; PARENTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349782692     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009264     Document Type: Article

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