A developmental study of the acquisition of Russian colour terms

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 395-417

  Davies, Ian R L ^a   Corbett, Greville G ^b   Mcgurk, Harry ^b   Macdermid, Catriona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; RUSSIA; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032084175     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000998003468     Document Type: Article

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