Where do taxonomic categories come from?

Human Development

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 3-10

  Nelson, Katherine ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Classification; Concepts; Event knowledge; Semantics; Slot fillers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002400876     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: 14230054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000273198     Document Type: Article

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