A bottom-up view of toddler word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 178-185

  Pereira, Alfredo F ^a   Smith, Linda B ^b   Yu, Chen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Visual attention; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84893032461     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0466-4     Document Type: Article

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