Measuring the comprehension of negation in 2- to 4-year-old children

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3169-3174

  Nordmeyer, Ann E ^a   Frank, Michael C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

language development; Negation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEGATION; NEGATIVE SENTENCES;

EID: 84961387112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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