Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms
- 28 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Cognition
- Vol. 38 (2), 179-211
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(91)90051-5
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