Preschoolers' incidental learning of novel words during storybook reading

Communication Disorders Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 256-266

  McLeod, Angela N ^a   McDade, Hiram L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

acquisition; development; language; linguistics; semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960547392     PISSN: 15257401     EISSN: 15384837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525740109354777     Document Type: Article

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