Learning Words from Knowledgeable versus Ignorant Speakers: Links between Preschoolers' Theory of Mind and Semantic Development

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1054-1070

  Sabbagh, Mark A ^a   Baldwin, Dare A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0035403972     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00334     Document Type: Article

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