Is the association between children's baby video viewing and poor language development robust? A reanalysis of Zimmerman, Christakis, and Meltzoff(2007)

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-137

  Ferguson, Christopher J ^a   Donnellan, M Brent ^b  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Cognition; Language development; Mass media; Television

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; TELEVISION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; TELEVISION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84891788797     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033628     Document Type: Article

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