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The developmental course of two children who could talk backward five years ago*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Nelson Cowan*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri–Columbia
Lewis A. Leavitt
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
*
Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

Abstract

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Notes and Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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Footnotes

*

Some of this work was funded through the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center Core Grant, DHHS HDO–3352, and NIH Grant No. 1–R23–HD18698–02 awarded to Cowan. We thank Missey Manders, Wemara Lichty, Carrie Winterowd and Molly Sherk for assistance, and Wilberta Donovan, Mary Roach, Scott Saults and Jean Ispa for reading an earlier draft.

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