Fast mapping skills in the developing lexicon

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 682-697

  Gershkoff Stowe, Lisa ^a,c   Hahn, Erin R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fast mapping; Lexical activation; Toddlers; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TRAINING; APTITUDE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

APTITUDE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547475568     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/048)     Document Type: Article

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