Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 11278-11283

  Cartmill, Erica A ^a   Armstrong III, Benjamin F ^b   Gleitman, Lila R ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Medina, Tamara N ^c   Trueswell, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; SES; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH;

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SES; WORD LEARNING;

ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PARENTING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84879958708     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309518110     Document Type: Article

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