Snapshots of Children's Changing Biases During Language Development: Differential Weighting of Perceptual and Linguistic Factors Predicts Noun Age of Acquisition

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 573-592

  Ramey, Christopher H ^a   Chrysikou, Evangelia G ^a   Reilly, Jamie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH SOUND DISORDER; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84886446503     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.689386     Document Type: Article

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