Infants' reliance on shape to generalize novel labels to animate and inanimate objects
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Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and the animate/inanimate effect.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000999003815