The effect of 'missing' information on children's retention of fast-mapped labels

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-73

  Wilkinson, Krista M ^a   Mazzitelli, Kim ^b  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 0037302163     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000902005469     Document Type: Article

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