Determining that a label is kind-referring: Factors that influence children's and adults' novel word extensions

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1007-1026

  Tare, Medha ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650176587     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990134     Document Type: Article

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