Fast mapping between a phrasal form and meaning

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 500-508

  Casenhiser, Devin ^a   Goldberg, Adele E ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27744586634     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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