Bringing theories of word learning in line with the evidence

Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-218

  Booth, Amy E ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0037382511     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00237-8     Document Type: Note

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