Speaker reliability in preschoolers' inferences about the meanings of novel words

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-104

  Sobel, David M ^a   Sedivy, Julie ^b   Buchanan, David W ^a   Hennessy, Rachel ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 82955168366     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000018     Document Type: Article

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