Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese-, English-, and Japanese-speaking children

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 979-1000

  Imai, Mutsumi ^a   Li, Lianjing ^b   Haryu, Etsuko ^c   Okada, Hiroyuki ^d   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^e   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^f   Shigematsu, Jun ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 47249132485     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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