Fragile but real: Children's capacity to use newly acquired words to convey preverbal memories

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 448-458

  Morris, Gwynn ^a   Baker Ward, Lynne ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33947513768     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01008.x     Document Type: Article

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