The effect of perceptual similarity and linguistic input on children's acquisition of object labels

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 695-717

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Shatz, Marilyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031242660     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000997003218     Document Type: Article

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