The Body and Children's Word Learning

The Emerging Spatial Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Smith, Linda B ^a   Maouene, Josita ^a   Hidaka, Shohei ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Body; Children; Developmental process; Early word learning; Meaning; Verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920396525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189223.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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