When is four far more than three? Children's generalization of newly acquired number words

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 600-606

  Huang, Yi Ting ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth ^a   Snedeker, Jesse ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Counting; Numerical concepts; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77951213977     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610363552     Document Type: Article

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