Finding where and saying where: Developmental relationships between place learning and language in the first year

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-331

  Balcomb, Frances ^a   Newcombe, Nora S ^a   Ferrara, Katrina ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79961227224     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2010.544692     Document Type: Article

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