Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent: An alternative account of Samuelson and Smith

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-41

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Markson, Lori ^b   Akhtar, Nameera ^c   Reudor, Ayelet ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1142266483     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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