Possible explanations for children's literal interpretations of homonyms

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 879-904

  Mazzocco, Michèle M M ^a,d   Myers, Gwen F ^b   Thompson, Laurie A ^b   Desai, Sneha S ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Math Skills Development Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0345116368     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000903005786     Document Type: Article

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