The effect of sampling on estimates of lexical specificity and error rates

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 859-877

  Rowland, Caroline F ^a   Fletcher, Sarah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAMPLE SIZE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

BIRTH ORDER; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33750876831     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007537     Document Type: Article

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