Phonotactic probability effect in nonword recall and its relationship with vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 306-323

  Messer, Marielle H ^a   Leseman, Paul P M ^a   Boom, Jan ^a   Mayo, Aziza Y ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language (bilingual); Language acquisition; Memory; Nonword recall; Phonotactic probability; Preschool children; Short term memory; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77649180096     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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