Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pruden, Shannon M ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^b   Golinkoff, Roberta M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actions; Event perception; Infants; Manner; Path; Spatial relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920135904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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