Six-month-old infants' preference for lexical words

Psychological Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-75

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035234925     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00312     Document Type: Article

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