Infants can learn decontextualized words before their first birthday

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-96

  Schafer, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PARENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 14844322347     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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