Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: A Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-74

  Gervain, Judit ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b   Mazuka, Reiko ^c,d   Horie, Ryota ^c   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Corpus; Headturn preference procedure; Infant directed speech; Italian; Japanese; Language acquisition; Prelexical infants; Word order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 45449087270     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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