Three- to four-year-olds' recognition that symbols have a stable meaning: Pictures are understood before written words

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1510-1522

  Apperly, Ian A ^a   Williams, Emily ^a   Williams, Joelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 7444263455     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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