Infants' understanding of false labeling events: The referential roles of words and the speakers who use them

Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 179-208

  Koenig, Melissa A ^a,c   Echols, Catharine H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

False labeling; Infants; Language acquisition; Referential intent

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

FALSE LABELING EVENTS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037381229     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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