Representational change in young children's understanding of familiar verb meaning

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 389-406

  Forbes, James N ^a   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^b  

^a ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031154786     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000997003127     Document Type: Article

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