Shape and the first hundred nouns

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1098-1114

  Gershkoff Stowe, Lisa ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 4344608002     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00728.x     Document Type: Review

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