Judging a book by its cover and its contents: The representation of polysemous and homophonous meanings in four-year-old children

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 245-272

  Srinivasan, Mahesh ^a   Snedeker, Jesse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homophony; Lexical ambiguity; Lexical representation; Lexical semantics; Polysemy; Semantic development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79955736920     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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