Interactions between statistical and semantic information in infant language development

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1207-1219

  Lany, Jill ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80051926379     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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