How children use input to acquire a lexicon

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 418-433

  Hoff, Erika ^a   Naigles, Letitia ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036519350     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00415     Document Type: Article

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