When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-165

  Papafragou, Anna ^a   Cassidy, Kimberly ^b   Gleitman, Lila ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Mental verbs; Syntactic bootstrapping; Theory of mind; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THINKING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; CULTURE; HUMANS; THINKING; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547817615     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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