A cross-linguistic study of word-mapping in 18- to 20-month-old infants

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 508-534

  Katerelos, Marina ^a   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Oshima Takane, Yuriko ^b  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TODDLER; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960947874     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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