When a Rose Is Just a Rose: The Illusion of Taxonomies in Infant Categorization

Infancy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-90

  Rakison, David H ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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EID: 0039474191     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0101_07     Document Type: Article

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