A horse of a different color: Specifying with precision infants' mappings of novel nouns and adjectives

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-22

  Booth, Amy E ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 59949085363     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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