A developmental shift from similar to language-specific strategies in verb acquisition: A comparison of English, Spanish, and Japanese

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-319

  Maguire, Mandy J ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^b   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^c   Imai, Mutsumi ^d   Haryu, Etsuko ^e   Vanegas, Sandra ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^f   Pulverman, Rachel ^b   Sanchez Davis, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adults; Language acquisition; Language typology; Preschoolers; Toddlers; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TRAINING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 76349092697     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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