What's mine is mine: Twelve-month-olds use possessive pronouns to identify referents

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 859-864

  Saylor, Megan M ^a   Ganea, Patricia A ^b   Vázquez, Maria D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79959286655     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01034.x     Document Type: Article

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