Containment, support, and beyond Constructing topological spatial categories in first language acquisition

Human Cognitive Processing

Volumn 20, Issue , 2007, Pages 177-203

  Bowerman, Melissa ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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