Early verb learning in 20-month-old Japanese-speaking children

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 455-484

  Oshima Takane, Yuriko ^a   Ariyama, Junko ^a   Kobayashi, Tessei ^b   Katerelos, Marina ^c   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79956067919     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000910000127     Document Type: Article

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