The Role of Novelty in Early Word Learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1157-1177

  Mather, Emily ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habituation; Infancy; Language development; Mutual exclusivity; Novelty preference; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 84865853335     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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