Mapping words to the world in infancy: Infants' expectations for count nouns and adjectives

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 357-381

  Booth, Amy E ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 12544258162     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD0403_06     Document Type: Article

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