How toddlers begin to learn verbs

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 397-403

  Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTIC INFORMATION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

LINGUISTICS;

BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT MAPPING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TODDLER;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 52049085250     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003     Document Type: Review

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