Specifying the scope of 13-month-olds' expectations for novel words

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Waxman, Sandra R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Category based commonalities; Nouns; Novel words

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 0033121152     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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