Child Care and Early Development

Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 471-489

  Phillips, Deborah ^a   McCartney, Kathleen ^b   Sussman, Amy ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense policy; Expressive language; Macrosystem; Mesosystem; Moderators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889484798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757703.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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