Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of vocabulary size and experience

Cognitive Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-31

  Mills, Debra L ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^b   Prat, Chantel ^c   Schafer, Graham ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Familiarity; Language acquisition; Lexical development; Semantic development; Vocabulary spurt; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 16844380630     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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