Developmental differences in the effects of phonological, lexical and semantic variables on word learning by infants

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-321

  Storkel, Holly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65349124694     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500090800891X     Document Type: Article

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