The Influence of Speaker Reliability on First Versus Second Label Learning

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 581-590

  Krogh Jespersen, Sheila ^a   Echols, Catharine H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND; TRUST;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; TRUST; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84858216643     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01713.x     Document Type: Article

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