Development of Abstract Grammatical Categorization in Infants

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 617-629

  Cyr, Marilyn ^a   Shi, Rushen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875326399     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01869.x     Document Type: Article

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