Clues cue the smooze: rhyme, pausing and prediction help children learn new words from storybooks
Rhyme, which is ubiquitous in the language experiences of young children, may be especially facilitative to vocabulary learning because of how it can support active predictions about upcoming words. In two experiments, we tested whether rhyme, when used to help children anticipate new words would ma...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00149/full |