More is more: The relationship between vocabulary size and word extension

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 466-473

  Thom, Emily E ^a   Sandhofer, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category generalization; Color word learning; Fast mapping; Language acquisition; Vocabulary development; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE;

COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349453926     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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