"really? She blicked the baby?": Two-year-olds learn combinatorial facts about verbs by listening: Research article

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 619-626

  Yuan, Sylvia ^a   Fisher, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65549134309     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02341.x     Document Type: Article

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