Children's recall of generic and specific labels regarding animals and people

Cognitive Development

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 84-98

  Gülgöz, Selin ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Conceptual development; Generic noun phrases; Inference; Language development; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920881552     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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