Assessing the productive vocabulary of Spanish-English bilingual toddlers from low-income families

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 333-357

  Mancilla Martinez, Jeannette ^a   Pan, Barbara Alexander ^b   Vagh, Shaher Banu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

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EID: 79960388708     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716410000433     Document Type: Article

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