Precursors to Verb Learning: Infants' Understanding of Motion Events

Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Casasola, Marianella ^a   Bhagwat, Jui ^a   Ferguson, Kim T ^a  

^a Department of Human Development Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Language acquisition; Language learning; Linguistic input; Motion events; Relational meanings; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920428768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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