The development of the "Cantonese Receptive Vocabulary Test" for children aged 2-6 in Hong Kong

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-138

  Cheung, Pamela S P ^a   Lee, Kathy Y S ^a   Lee, Loretta W T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

phonological distractor; receptive vocabulary; Semantic distractor

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPEECH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS;

EID: 80051511590     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13682829709021465     Document Type: Article

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