By any other name: When will preschoolers produce several labels for a referent?

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 787-804

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a   Yen, Loulee ^b   Pettit, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Univ of California at San Diego ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0039301753     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000901004858     Document Type: Article

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