Parent or community: Where do 20-month-olds exposed to two accents acquire their representation of words?

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-100

  Floccia, Caroline ^a   Delle Luche, Claire ^a   Durrant, Samantha ^a   Butler, Joseph ^b   Goslin, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accents; Children; Intermodal Preferential Looking procedure; Language acquisition; Lexicon; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861233722     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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