The development of sentence interpretation: Effects of perceptual, attentional and semantic interference

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 794-813

  Leech, Robert ^a   Aydelott, Jennifer ^a   Symons, Germaine ^b   Carnevale, Julia ^c   Dick, Frederic ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 35548970757     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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