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Direct linkSandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2004
Two experiments examined the role of perceptual complexity, object familiarity and form class cues on how children interpret novel adjectives and count nouns. Four-year-old children participated in a forced-choice match-to-target task in which an exemplar was named with a novel word and children were asked to choose another one that matched the…
Descriptors: Cues, Nouns, Familiarity, Preschool Children
