Language experience shapes the development of the mutual exclusivity bias

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-150

  Houston Price, Carmel ^a   Caloghiris, Zoe ^a   Raviglione, Eleonora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING STYLE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY BIAS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955995796     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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