Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 488-493

  Grassmann, Susanne ^a   Stracke, Marén ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Exclusion inference; Given new; Principle of Contrast; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68049123095     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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