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Peer reviewedNaigles, Letitia G.; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Investigated overextensions in comprehension and production, using the preferential-looking model, in 99 children (ages 1;9 to 2;3) who were asked to find the referent that matched the label they were given in real and anomalous trials. Results confirm that overextensions in production are not diagnostic of children's underlying semantic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Research, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory
