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Direct linkColunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2008
Young children's skilled generalization of newly learned nouns to new instances has become the battleground for two very different approaches to cognition. This debate is a proxy for a larger dispute in cognitive science and cognitive development: cognition as rule-like amodal propositions, on the one hand, or as embodied, modal, and dynamic…
Descriptors: Nouns, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Development, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedSandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B.; Luo, Jun – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Offers additional means of evaluating parent speech by examining frequencies of individual nouns, verbs, and descriptors, and examining the learning task presented to children. Study one examines transcripts from the CHILDES database of English-speaking parents' speech to children at five developmental levels; study two examines 50 transcripts of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Contrastive Linguistics, Databases, Developmental Stages
