Infants' Learning of Novel Words in a Stochastic Environment

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1611-1617

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

language acquisition; online processing; statistical learning; stochastic environment; word learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TIME; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 72149122667     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016134     Document Type: Article

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