"Shhh! We're Tryin' to Concentrate": Attention and Environmental Distracters in Novel Word Learning

The authors' purpose in this study was to evaluate the role of attention, as a central dimension of temperament, in children's real-time acquisition of novel vocabulary. Environmental distractions were administered to 47 22-month-old children as they acquired novel vocabulary in a fast-map...

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Main Authors: Dixon, Wallace E., Jr., Salley, Brenda J.
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2006
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4899
https://doi.org/10.3200/GNTP.167.4.393-414