French-learning toddlers use gender information on determiners during word recognition

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-425

  Van Heugten, Marieke ^a,b   Shi, Rushen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FRANCE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FRANCE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63749111780     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00788.x     Document Type: Article

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