Development and transfer of vocabulary knowledge in Spanish-speaking language minority preschool children

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 969-992

  Goodrich, J Marc ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^a   Kleuver, Cherie G ^a   Farver, Joann M ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MULTILINGUALISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSFER OF LEARNING; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTILINGUALISM; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSLATING; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84938635535     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500091500032X     Document Type: Article

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