Childreni's and adults' understanding of proper namablea things

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Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-32

  Hall, D Geoffrey ^a   Veltkamp, Barbara C ^a   Turkel, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language development; Lexical development; Semantic development; Vocabulary development; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644933918     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723704040548     Document Type: Article

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