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Empirical Research Papers / Artículos de Investigación Empírica

Bidirectional relations between executive function and expressive vocabulary in kindergarten and first grade / Relaciones bidireccionales entre la función ejecutiva y el vocabulario expresivo en jardín de infantes y primer grado

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Pages 424-450 | Received 12 Jun 2016, Accepted 06 Sep 2016, Published online: 27 Mar 2017

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