Do words facilitate object categorization in 9-month-old infants?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-26

  Balaban, Marie T ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030625327     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1996.2332     Document Type: Article

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