Evidence against a dedicated system for word learning in children

Nature

Volumn 385, Issue 6619, 1997, Pages 813-815

  Markson, Lori ^a   Bloom, Paul ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031059560     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/385813a0     Document Type: Article

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