Monolingual and bilingual children's use of mutual exclusivity in the naming of whole objects

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-45

  Davidson, Denise ^a   Tell, Dina ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language (bilingual); Language (general); Language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 24044452565     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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