Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it

Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-103

  Gelman, Susan A ^a   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intentionality; Semantics; Young children

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENTIONALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034648513     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00071-8     Document Type: Article

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