The use of social and salience cues in early word learning

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-55

  Houston Price, Carmel ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^b   Duffy, Hester ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covariation; Gaze direction; Preferential looking; Reference; Salience; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33747355242     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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