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From the Lexicon to Expectations About Kinds: A Role for Associative Learning
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Colunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Psychological Review, 2005
In the novel noun generalization task, 2 1/2-year-old children display generalized expectations about how solid and nonsolid things are named, extending names for never-before-encountered solids by shape and for never-before-encountered nonsolids by material. This distinction between solids and nonsolids has been interpreted in terms of an…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Generalization, Nouns, Toddlers
Perceptual Complexity and Form Class Cues in Novel Word Extension Tasks: How 4-Year-Old Children Interpret Adjectives and Count Nouns
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Sandhofer, 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
Counting Nouns and Verbs in the Input: Differential Frequencies, Different Kinds of Learning?
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Sandhofer, 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