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Peer reviewedCasasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Six experiments examined infants' ability to associate nonsense words with two causal actions: pushing and pulling. Eighteen-month-olds, but not 14-month-olds, formed word-action associations. Fourteen-month-olds discriminated a change in label but not a change in action when the other was held constant. When language labels were replaced with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Comprehension, Discrimination Learning
