Does fostering inductive reasoning promote children’s language acquisition?

Educational and Child Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 40-58

  Marx, Edeltrud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

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