On leveraged learning in lexical acquisition and its relationship to acceleration

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1503-1523

  Mitchell, Colleen ^a   McMurray, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Fast mapping; Language development; Vocabulary explosion; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950752374     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01071.x     Document Type: Article

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