The Relative Strengths of Indirect and Direct Word Learning

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 745-760

  Jaswal, Vikram K ^a,b   Markman, Ellen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0141642082     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.4.745     Document Type: Article

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