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Peer reviewedSamuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 1999
Two experiments examined toddlers' noun vocabularies and interpretations of names for solid and non-solid items. Results indicated that one side of the solidity-syntax-category organization mapping was favored. Seventeen- to 33-month olds do not systematically generalize names for solid things by shape similarity until they already know many…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Classification
