Word comprehension and production asymmetries in children and adults

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 489-509

  Gershkoff Stowe, Lisa ^a   Hahn, Erin R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension production asymmetry; Individual differences; Lexical processing; Vocabulary growth; Word learning; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873526058     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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