Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: The role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-55

  Abbot Smith, Kirsten ^a   Lieven, Elena ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1142266474     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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