Infants' Reliance on a Social Criterion for Establishing Word-Object Relations

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3135-3153

  Baldwin, Dare A ^a   Markman, Ellen M ^b   Bill, Brigitte ^c   Desjardins, Renee N ^c   Irwin, Jane M ^c   Tidball, Glynnis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; INFANT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030347862     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01906.x     Document Type: Article

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