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The elusive first word: the importance of the naming insight for the development of referential speech*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Alan G. Kamhi*
Affiliation:
Memphis State University
*
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Memphis State University, 807 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.

Abstract

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Notes and Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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Footnotes

*

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Third International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Austin, Texas, in July 1984.

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