The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract syntactic construction

Cognitive Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-193

  Ambridge, Ben ^a,c   Theakston, Anna L ^a   Lieven, Elena V M ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction learning; Distributed learning; Spacing effect; Syntax acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645093441     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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