Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-116

  Fernald, Anne ^a,b   Perfors, Amy ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Infant language comprehension; Infant speech processing; Lexical development; Online measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 31644451465     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.98     Document Type: Article

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