Functions, forms and feps : how infants use language to learn about artifacts

Two experiments investigated the influence of object labels and perceptual similarity in 18- month-olds' inductive inferences within the domain of artifact kinds. In Experiment 1, infants learned structure-dependent functions of training objects, and were presented with test objects that var...

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Main Author: Joshi, Anjula
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16603