Is this still Called a Dog? 18-Month-Olds' Generalization of Familiar Labels to Unusual Objects

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-67

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Sissons, Mary E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Labelling; Object parts; Shape bias; Vocabulary; Word comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142118621     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.256     Document Type: Article

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