Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maguire, Mandy J ^a   Dove, Guy O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Event labels; Event perception; Event words; Packaging problem; Perceptual similarity; Prelinguistic universal concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920189011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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