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Publication details [#21115]

Pea, Roy D. 1979. Can information theory explain early word choice? Journal of Child Language 6 : 397–410.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

first language acquisition | informativeness | lexical choice

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

P. studies the adequacy of the concept of `informativeness' in explaining children's early word choices.

Reviewed by

Greenfield, Patricia Marks. 1980. Going beyond information theory to explain early word choice: A reply to Roy Pea.