Nineteen-month-olds' understanding of the conventionality of object labels versus desires

Infancy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-350

  Graham, Susan A ^a   Stock, Hayli ^a   Henderson, Annette M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33745674535     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0903_5     Document Type: Article

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