The right thing at the right time: Why ostensive naming facilitates word learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Axelsson, Emma L ^a   Churchley, Kirsten ^a   Horst, Jessica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Fast mapping; Language acquisition; Referent selection; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867080312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00088     Document Type: Article

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