Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 644-661

  Huang, Yi Ting ^a   Snedeker, Jesse ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956135286     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000910000206     Document Type: Article

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