Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-76

  Snedeker, Jesse ^a   Geren, Joy ^a   Shafto, Carissa L ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjectives; International adoption; Language development; Noun bias; Nouns; One word stage; Time; Verbs; Vocabulary composition; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84857980325     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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