The influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children varying in expressive vocabulary

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 628-643

  Storkel, Holly L ^a   Hoover, Jill R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79956092236     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000910000176     Document Type: Article

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