2.5-year-olds use cross-situational consistency to learn verbs under referential uncertainty.

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Published in Cognition on November 20, 2011

Authors

Rose M Scott1, Cynthia Fisher

Author Affiliations

1: School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of California Merced, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA. rscott@ucmerced.edu

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