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Part VII - Motor and related development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2017

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Elena Geangu  and
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Brian Hopkins
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Lancaster University
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development , pp. 513 - 562
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Adolph, K.E., & Berger, S.E. (2006). Reclaiming motor development. In Daimon, W. & Lerner, R. (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology, Vol. 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed., pp. 161–213). New York, NY: Wiley.Google Scholar
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