Words and possible words in early language acquisition

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 130-150

  Marchetto, Erika ^a,b   Bonatti, Luca L ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial language learning; Development of morphosyntax; Lexical acquisition; Possible words

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE LEARNING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT OF MORPHOSYNTAX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; POSSIBLE WORDS; SPEECH;

ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE LEARNING; DEVELOPMENT OF MORPHOSYNTAX; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; POSSIBLE WORDS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84884130111     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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