Predicted errors in children's early sentence comprehension

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-94

  Gertner, Yael ^a   Fisher, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Syntactic bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861232821     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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