What Word Learners Do When Input Contradicts the Mutual Exclusivity Assumption

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3120-3134

  Savage, Susan L ^a   Au, Terry Kit Fong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030334624     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1131770     Document Type: Article

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