One cow does not an animal make: Young children can extend novel words at the superordinate level

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1674-1694

  Liu, Jing ^a   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^b   Sak, Kimberly ^b  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035512509     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00372     Document Type: Article

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