The shape-bias in Spanish-speaking children and its relationship to vocabulary

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 443-455

  Hahn, Erin R ^a   Cantrell, Lisa ^b  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; SPAIN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84857057063     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500091100016X     Document Type: Article

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