Word frequency as a cue for identifying function words in infancy

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 444-457

  Hochmann, Jean Rémy ^a   Endress, Ansgar D ^b   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Function words; Syntactic bootstrapping; Word frequency; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 77951665655     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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