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Words Are Not Merely Features: Only Consistently Applied Nouns Guide 4-year-olds' Inferences About Object Categories

Susan A. Graham Department of Psychology, University of CalgaryCorrespondence[email protected]
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Amy E. Booth Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
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Sandra R. Waxman Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Pages 136-145 | Published online: 30 Mar 2012

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