Preschool children's use of cues to generic meaning

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-53

  Cimpian, Andrei ^a   Markman, Ellen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual development; Generics; Language development; Pronoun comprehension

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 40649095436     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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