Recognition and representation of function words in English-learning infants

Infancy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-198

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b   Cutler, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750144692     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in1002_5     Document Type: Article

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