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Belanger, Julie; Hall, D. Geoffrey – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
In 4 experiments, we examined 16- and 20-month-old infants' understanding of proper names and count nouns. In each experiment, infants were taught a novel word modeled linguistically as either a proper name (e.g., "DAXY") or a count noun (e.g., "a DAXY") for a stuffed animal shown on a puppet stage. This animal was moved to a new location on the…
Descriptors: Animals, Nouns, Infants, Experiments