Object Properties and Object Kind: Twenty-One-Month-Old Infants' Extension of Novel Adjectives

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1313-1329

  Waxman, Sandra R ^a   Markow, Dana B ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 0032193275     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06214.x     Document Type: Article

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