Do 2-year-olds disambiguate and extend words learned from video?

First Language

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-240

  Scofield, Jason ^a   Williams, Amie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disambiguation; extension; video; word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950721192     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723708101681     Document Type: Article

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