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Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms
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- Soja, N. N., Carey, S., & Spelke, E. S.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1991-02
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 179-211
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993819511
- Cited by
- 719
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 26.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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