Learning words: Children disregard some pragmatic information that conflicts with mutual exclusivity

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 158-165

  Jaswal, Vikram K ^a   Hansen, Mikkel B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33645030650     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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