Dynamics of word comprehension in infancy: Developments in timing, accuracy, and resistance to acoustic degradation

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-208

  Zangl, Renate ^a,c   Klarman, Lindsay ^a   Thal, Donna ^b   Fernald, Anne ^c   Bates, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHRONOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 31644441083     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0602_2     Document Type: Article

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