Children Value Informativity Over Logic in Word Learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1017-1023

  Ramscar, Michael ^a   Dye, Melody ^b   Klein, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive development; language; language development; learning; prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878793815     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612460691     Document Type: Article

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