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Early Word Learning

Early Word Learning is a theoretical construct in lexical development that specifies the cognitive and social mechanisms through which young children acquire initial mappings between linguistic forms and their referential meanings in the environment.

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492

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Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science · 1996 · 5.7K citations

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The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech

Erika Hoff · Child Development · 2003 · 2.3K citations

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The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings

Lila R. Gleitman · Language Acquisition · 1990 · 1.8K citations

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Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender.

Janellen Huttenlocher, Wendy Haight, Anthony S. Bryk et al. · Developmental Psychology · 1991 · 1.8K citations

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Joint Attention and Early Language

Michael Tomasello, M. Jeffrey Farrar · Child Development · 1986 · 1.4K citations

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Authors

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  1. LB
    Linda B. Smith

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    60 publications · 8.7K citations

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  2. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    43 publications · 8.3K citations

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  3. SR
    Sandra R. Waxman

    Northwestern University, United States

    39 publications · 3.6K citations

    31

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  4. RM
    Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

    University of Delaware, United States

    36 publications · 4.6K citations

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  5. JF
    Janet F. Werker

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    30 publications · 5.3K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    47 h-index

    114 publications

    21.2K citations

  2. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    41 h-index

    220 publications

    14.2K citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    39 h-index

    102 publications

    12.2K citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    36 h-index

    98 publications

    13.1K citations

  5. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    35 h-index

    62 publications

    9.8K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    122 publications

    6.5K citations

  7. University of Delaware

    Newark, United States

    34 h-index

    70 publications

    6.4K citations

  8. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    32 h-index

    72 publications

    9.8K citations

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Venues

  1. Child Development

    199 publications · 26K citations

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  2. Journal of Child Language

    243 publications · 20.8K citations

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  3. Developmental Science

    113 publications · 10.8K citations

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  4. Developmental Psychology

    108 publications · 14.6K citations

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  5. Cognition

    53 publications · 10K citations

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