What constrains children's learning of novel shape terms?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-148

  O'Hanlon, Catherine G ^a   Roberson, Debi ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Linguistic contrast; Mutual exclusivity; Pragmatic cues; Shape bias; Shape terms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247637623     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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