Shifting senses in lexical semantic development

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-37

  Rabagliati, Hugh ^a   Marcus, Gary F ^a   Pylkkänen, Liina ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Lexical development; Lexical semantics; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAME; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING STYLE; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; ROBOTICS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SENSATION;

EID: 77956228959     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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