Holding on to childhood language memory

Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Oh, Janet S ^a   Jun, Sun Ah ^a   Knightly, Leah M ^a   Au, Terry Kit Fong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Childhood; Korean; Language development; Language experience; Memory; Phonology

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE MEMORY;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; PHONETICS;

EID: 2242461340     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00175-0     Document Type: Article

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