Individual differences in lexical processing at 18 months predict vocabulary growth in typically developing and late-talking toddlers

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 203-222

  Fernald, Anne ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84856245415     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01692.x     Document Type: Article

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