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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism
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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism

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Core vocabulary used by typically developing Tamil-speaking preschool children during structured parent-child play in

Sharon Rose Devaneson1, Arya Geetha2, Savitha Vadakkanthara Hariharan3,4

  • 1Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, SRM School of Allied Health Sciences, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India.

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
|October 19, 2026
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Tamil languagecore vocabularylanguage samplingpreschool childrenroot-word analysis

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