The Linguistic Construction of Social Categories in Toddlers

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 114-123

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Deblinger Tangi, Ronit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894902148     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12130     Document Type: Article

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