Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying socioeconomic gradients in language development: New answers to old questions

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-118

  Demir, Özlem Ece ^a   Küntay, Aylin C ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Language development; Neural and cognitive mechanisms; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900314122     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12069     Document Type: Article

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