Slowed speech input has a differential impact on on-line and off-line processing in children's comprehension of pronouns

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-304

  Love, Tracy ^a,b   Walenski, Matthew ^a,b   Swinney, David ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child language; On line and off line processing; Pronominal resolution; Rate of speech; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349287362     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9103-9     Document Type: Article

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