The Roots of Verbs in Prelinguistic Action Knowledge

Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Buresh, Jennifer Sootsman ^a   Woodward, Amanda ^a   Brune, Camille W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infants; Language acquisition; Language learning; Prelinguisticaction knowledge; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920397283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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