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Direct linkLi, Peggy; Ogura, Tamiko; Barner, David; Yang, Shu-Ju; Carey, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Previous studies indicate that English-learning children acquire the distinction between singular and plural nouns between 22 and 24 months of age. Also, their use of the distinction is correlated with the capacity to distinguish nonlinguistically between singular and plural sets in a manual search paradigm (D. Barner, D. Thalwitz, J. Wood, S.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Nouns, Concept Formation, Mandarin Chinese
Barner, David; Thalwitz, Dora; Wood, Justin; Yang, Shu-Ju; Carey, Susan – Developmental Science, 2007
We investigated the relationship between the acquisition of singular-plural morpho-syntax and children's representation of the distinction between singular and plural sets. Experiment 1 tested 18-month-olds using the manual-search paradigm and found that, like 14-month-olds (Feigenson & Carey, 2005), they distinguished three objects from one but…
Descriptors: Cues, Nouns, Syntax, Morphemes
