A comparison of homonym and novel word learning: The role of phonotactic probability and word frequency

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 827-853

  Storkel, Holly L ^a   Maekawa, Junko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 29144511529     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000905007099     Document Type: Article

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