Fast mapping, slow learning: Disambiguation of novel word-object mappings in relation to vocabulary learning at 18, 24, and 30months

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-53

  Bion, Ricardo A H ^a   Borovsky, Arielle ^a,b   Fernald, Anne ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disambiguation; Fast mapping; Mutual exclusivity; Retention; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84868345467     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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