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Peer reviewedStevens, Tassos; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette – Journal of Child Language, 1997
This study examines the processes underlying vocabulary acquisition, i.e., how new words are learned, in children with Williams Syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. A Williams Syndrome group was compared to groups of normal controls in the range 3-9 years in four different experiments testing for constraints on word learning. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Mapping, Comparative Analysis
