Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-135

  Gomez, Rebecca L ^a   Gerken, Louann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial learning; Grammar; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032999651     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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