Does language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison in children?

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-228

  Özçalişkan, Şeyda ^a,b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Gentner, Dedre ^c   Mylander, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafness; Early language development; Gesture; Gesture speech combination; Homesign; Metaphor; Similarity comparison; Similes; x is like y

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE;

AGING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE;

EID: 67649210217     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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