Children's use of syntactic and pragmatic knowledge in the interpretation of novel adjectives

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-30

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Hall, D Geoffrey ^b   Graham, Susan A ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33644936585     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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