Expressing generic concepts with and without a language model

Cognition

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-126

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^b   Mylander, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Chinese; Conceptual development; Deaf children; Generics; Gesture; Homesign; Language development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 19544375259     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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