Linguistic labels and categorization in infancy: Do labels facilitate or hinder?

Infancy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-253

  Robinson, Christopher W ^a   Sloutsky, Vladimir M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34250750291     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00225.x     Document Type: Article

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