Young two-year-olds' tendency to map novel verbs onto novel actions

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 466-498

  Merriman, William E ^a   Evey Burkey, Julie A ^b   Marazita, John M ^b   Jarvis, Lorna H ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030337989     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1996.0059     Document Type: Article

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