Language acquisition in Croatian 5- to 7-year-old children: Where have gender differences gone?

There is evidence that at early chronological age girls and boys differ, among other characteristics, with respect to speech and language acquisition and use. The aim of this study was to test whether these gender differences recorded at early verbal age persist until school age. The study was condu...

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Matična publikacija: Beszédetudomány: az anyanyelv-elsajátítástól a zöngekezdési idöig - Science of Speech: From First Language Acquisition to Voice Onset Time
Markó Alexandra
Glavni autori: Mildner, Vesna (-), Bajzec, Martina (Author)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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