Lexical competition in young children's word learning

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-132

  Swingley, Daniel ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Child development; Language acquisition; Phonology; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33846591897     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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