Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 157-176

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Strosberg, Randi ^b   Akhtar, Nameera ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030078684     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000900010138     Document Type: Article

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