Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 442-446

  Arunachalam, Sudha ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Syntactic bootstrapping; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TODDLER;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349113565     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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