Children's Use of Mutual Exclusivity to Learn Labels for Parts of Objects

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 592-596

  Hansen, Mikkel B ^a   Markman, Ellen M ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fast mapping; language acquisition; lexical constraints; mutual exclusivity; object labels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63149134445     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014838     Document Type: Article

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