Specifying the Relation between Novel and Known: Input Affects the Acquisition of Novel Color Terms

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 850-866

  Gottfried, Gail M ^a   Tonks, Stephen J M ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030163458     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01768.x     Document Type: Article

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