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Direct linkHall, D. Geoffrey; Williams, Sean G.; Belanger, Julie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
In two experiments, one hundred ninety-two 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, and adults heard a novel word for a target object and then were asked to extend the label to one of two test objects, one matching in shape-based object category (the shape match) and the other matching in a property other than shape (the property match). We independently…
Descriptors: Cues, Nouns, Preschool Children, Pragmatics
Diesendruck, Gil; Hall, D. Geoffrey; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2006
In Study 1, English-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds heard a novel adjective used to label one of two objects and were asked for the referent of a different novel adjective. Children were more likely to select the unlabeled object if the two adjectives appeared prenominally (e.g., "a very DAXY dog") than as predicates (e.g., "a dog that is very DAXY").…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Semitic Languages
