Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children

Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-166

  Swingley, Daniel ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical representation; Spoken word recognition; Very young children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034648525     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00081-0     Document Type: Article

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