An Examination of Similarity Neighbourhoods in Young Children's Receptive Vocabularies.

Charles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A.

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ERIC Number: EJ522956

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Publication Date: 1995

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An Examination of Similarity Neighbourhoods in Young Children's Receptive Vocabularies.

Charles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A.

Journal of Child Language, v22 n3 p727-35 Oct 1995

Examines issues relating to similarity neighborhoods of words in children's lexicons. Young children's receptive vocabularies were analyzed for three-phoneme, four-phoneme and five-phoneme words. The pattern of the original results from Charles-Luce & Luce (1990) was replicated. (18 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Patterns, Language Research, Mothers, Phonemes, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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