Young Children Associate Novel Words With Complex Objects Rather Than Salient Parts

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1051-1061

  Hollich, George ^a   Golinkoff, Roberta M ^b   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

constraints; whole object bias; word learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34548829088     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1051     Document Type: Article

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