Journal Article

The body region correlates of concrete and abstract verbs in early child language

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Verbs highly associated with a single region of the body are generally learned earlier than those that are not.

Maouene, Josita, Sethuraman, Nitya, Laakso, Aarre, and Maouene, Mounir. 2011. "The body region correlates of concrete and abstract verbs in early child language." Cognition, Brain, Behavior 15 (4) : 449-484.