Preschool children's multimodal word learning

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 306-333

  Scofield, Jason ^a   Hernandez Reif, Maria ^a   Keith, Anna Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; LEARNING; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WORD LEARNING;

EID: 70949095626     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248370903417662     Document Type: Article

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