The Home Literacy Environment Is a Correlate, but Perhaps Not a Cause, of Variations in Children’s Language and Literacy Development

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 498-514

  Puglisi, Marina L ^a   Hulme, Charles ^b   Hamilton, Lorna G ^c   Snowling, Margaret J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85025817962     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: 1532799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2017.1346660     Document Type: Article

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