The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation in children: Evidence from linguistic omissions

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-149

  Bunger, Ann ^a   Trueswell, John C ^b   Papafragou, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Event cognition; Motion; Space; Spatial language; Speech planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH;

EID: 84155170768     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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