Preschoolers' Use of Talker Information in On-Line Comprehension

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2042-2056

  Creel, Sarah C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869456008     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01816.x     Document Type: Article

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