The Relationship Between Phonological Memory, Phonological Sensitivity, and Incidental Word Learning

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-109

  Ramachandra, Vijayachandra ^a   Hewitt, Lynne E ^b   Brackenbury, Tim ^b  

^a MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast mapping; Lexical memory; Phonological knowledge; Vocabulary development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79952993570     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-010-9157-8     Document Type: Article

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