The role of competition in word learning via referent selection

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 706-713

  Horst, Jessica S ^a   Scott, Emilly J ^a   Pollard, Jessica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77955767413     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00926.x     Document Type: Article

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