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Publication details [#31279]

Booth, Amy A. and Sandra R. Waxman. 2002. Word learning is 'smart': evidence that conceptual information affects preschoolers' extension of novel words. Cognition 84 (1) : B11–B22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | conceptualization | language and thought | meaning | word formation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

The results of two experiments on word formation in preschoolers, confirm the central role of conceptual information in mapping words to meaning.