Do Beez Buzz? Rule-Based and Frequency-Based Knowledge in Learning to Spell Plural -s

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-74

  Kemp, Nenagh ^a   Bryant, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0038143621     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00521     Document Type: Article

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