Body parts and early-learned verbs

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1200-1216

  Maouene, Josita ^a   Hidaka, Shohei ^b   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Language; Verb meaning; World learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349136924     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802019997     Document Type: Article

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