Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5838, 2007, Pages 631-

  McMurray, Bob ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; LEARNING;

HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547760946     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144073     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

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7. The author thanks R. Aslin, P. Bloom, J. Freeman, P. Gupta, J. Horst, K. McGregor, and especially L. Samuelson and M. Blumberg for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript; C. Manson for assistance with the figure; and G. Oden for suggesting the central limit theorem. This research was supported by NIH grant DC008089-01.