Lexicon structure and the disambiguation of novel words: Evidence from bilingual infants

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-416

  Byers Heinlein, Krista ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Disambiguation; Infant development; Mutual exclusivity; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BILINGUALISM; DISAMBIGUATION; INFANT DEVELOPMENT; MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY; WORD LEARNING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84879163486     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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