Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Pediatrics

• Publication date

  2009-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Education

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  DOI 10.1542/peds.2008-2267PMID 19564318
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