The Growth of Flexible Problem Solving: Preschool Children Use Changing Verbal Cues to Infer Multiple Word Meanings

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-191

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0007299332     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD010202     Document Type: Article

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