What's in the name? Or how rocks and stones are different from bunnies and rabbits

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 198-212

  Fisher, Anna V ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Label extension; Language acquisition; Polyonomy; Synonym based reasoning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75449100097     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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