Unmasking "alive": Children's appreciation of a concept linking all living things

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-473

  Leddon, Erin M ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67651068001     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248370802678463     Document Type: Article

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