Does object naming aid 12-month-olds' formation of novel object categories?

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Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-361

  Fulkerson, Anne L ^a   Haaf, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Infancy; Novel objects; Object naming; Word extension task

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EID: 34547720932     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706059217     Document Type: Article

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