The influence of object pre-exposure on two-year-olds' disambiguation of novel labels

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 207-222

  Graham, Susan A ^a,b   Turner, Juanita N ^a   Henderson, Annette M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 14644425186     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500090400666X     Document Type: Article

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