Associations between lexicon and grammar at the end of the second year in Finnish children

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 779-806

  Stolt, Suvi ^a   Haataja, Leena ^b   Lapinleimu, Helena ^b   Lehtonen, Liisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349783924     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009161     Document Type: Article

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