Novel word learning: An eye-tracking study. Are 18-month-old late talkers really different from their typical peers?

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-157

  Ellis, Erica M ^a,c   Borovsky, Arielle ^b   Elman, Jeffrey L ^c   Evans, Julia L ^c,d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Fast mapping; Infants; Late talkers; Toddlers; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DELAY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; EYE MOVEMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84947595876     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: 18737994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2015.06.011     Document Type: Article

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