Things are what they do: Katherine Nelson's functional approach to language and cognition

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-19

  Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ONTOGENY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 33751220193     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD0301_2     Document Type: Article

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