Multiple labels for objects in conversations with young children: Parents' language and children's developing expectations about word meanings

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 746-763

  Callanan, Maureen A ^a   Sabbagh, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 4444243329     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.5.746     Document Type: Article

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