Early noun vocabularies: Do ontology, category structure and syntax correspond?

Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-33

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Nouns; Ontology; Syntax; Vocabulary development

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032843945     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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