Perceptual complexity and form class cues in novel word extension tasks: How 4-year-old children interpret adjectives and count nouns

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 378-388

  Sandhofer, Catherine M ^a   Smith, Linda B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NURSERY SCHOOL; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NAMES; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SCHOOLS, NURSERY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 2942598141     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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