Do 9-Month-Old Infants Expect Distinct Words to Refer to Kinds?

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1227-1238

  Dewar, Kathryn ^a   Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

labeling; object representations; sortal concepts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548813080     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1227     Document Type: Article

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