If it's red, it's not Vap : how competition among words may benefit early word learning

One of the most prominent issues in early cognitive and linguistic development concerns how children figure out meanings of words from hearing them in context, since in many contexts there are multiple words and multiple potential referents for those words. Recent findings concerning on-line sentenc...

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Veröffentlicht in:First language. - 1998. - 33(2013), 1 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 3-19
1. Verfasser: Yoshida, Hanako (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hanania, Rima
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:First language
Schlagworte:Journal Article early word learning lexical competition novel adjective learning
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