The acquisition of word connotations: Asking 'what happened?'

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 381-398

  Corrigan, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 3142738281     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000903005981     Document Type: Article

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