Four- and six-year-olds use pragmatic competence to guide word learning

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-306

  Vázquez, Maria D ^a   Delisle, Sarah S ^a   Saylor, Megan M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84873465687     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000420     Document Type: Article

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