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Peer reviewedGelman, Susan A.; Taylor, Marjorie – Child Development, 1984
Investigates the ability of 32 two-year-old children to use syntactic (i.e., form class) and semantic (i.e., type of referent) information to interpret the meaning of new nouns. Subjects were taught either a common noun or a proper noun for a block-like or animal-like object and then asked to select the named toy. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Nouns, Pragmatics
