Preschoolers' Use of Form Class Cues to Learn Descriptive Proper Names

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1547-1560

  Hall, D Geoffrey ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b   Brédart, Serge ^c   Nicolay, Anne Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

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EID: 0142136652     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00622     Document Type: Article

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