Language input and semantic categories: A relation between cognition and early word learning

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 759-790

  Borovsky, Arielle ^a,b   Elman, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33750861889     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007574     Document Type: Review

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