What's new? Children prefer novelty in referent selection

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 234-244

  Horst, Jessica S ^a   Samuelson, Larissa K ^b   Kucker, Sarah C ^b   McMurray, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast mapping; Language acquisition; Novelty; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

EID: 78651099800     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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