The effect of semantic representation on toddlers' word retrieval

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1468-1480

  Capone, Nina C ^a,b   McGregor, Karla K ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Semantic representation; Toddlers; Word learning; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33644830762     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/102)     Document Type: Article

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