Word, Intention, and Action: A Two-Tiered Model of Action Word Learning

Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Forbes, James N ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action discrimination; Action word learning; Language acquisition; Linguistic abilities; Novel verbs; Object motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920459367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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