Variability in Early Communicative Development

1994/01/01 by Larry Fenson, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick +8 · 2,788 citations
Psychology · #Child development #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Language Development and Disorders #Language development #Psychology

paper · doi:10.2307/1166093

published in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 59(5), i (Wiley)

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