Sortal concepts and pragmatic inference in children's early quantification of objects

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 302-326

  Srinivasan, Mahesh ^a   Chestnut, Eleanor ^a,c   Li, Peggy ^b   Barner, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical semantics; Pragmatic inference; Quantification; Sortal concepts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84874487878     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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