The effect of vocabulary size on toddlers' receptiveness to unexpected testimony about category membership

Infancy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-187

  Jaswal, Vikram K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATIN SQUARE DESIGN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 35348906119     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00239.x     Document Type: Article

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