Two-year-olds differentially disambiguate novel words and facts

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 875-889

  Scofield, Jason ^a,c   Behrend, Douglas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 35548965116     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000907008100     Document Type: Article

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