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A test of the 'specificity hypothesis' in children with Down's syndrome

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Volume 11, Issue 33

https://doi.org/10.1177/014272379101103312

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Gopnik, A. & Meltzoff, A. (1986). Relations between semantic and cognitive development in the one-word stage. the specificity hypothesis. Child Development , 57, 1040-1053.

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