2 1/2-year-old children use animacy and syntax to learn a new noun

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-125

  Childers, Jane B ^a   Echols, Catharine H ^b  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 13844318177     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0501_5     Document Type: Article

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