Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbs

Child Development

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1325-1337

  Brooks, Patricia J ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^b   Dodson, Kelly ^c   Lewis, Lawrence B ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033220635     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00097     Document Type: Article

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