Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ469354
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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The Development of a Linkage between Count Nouns and Object Categories: Evidence from Fifteen- to Twenty-One-Month-Old Infants.
Waxman, Sandra R.; Hall, D. Geoffrey.
Child Development, v64 n4 p1224-41 Aug 1993
In 2 experiments, 15- and 21-month-old infants were presented with a target object and asked to select an object taxonomically or thematically related to the target object. The target object was introduced with or without a novel nonsense noun. Results indicated that novel nouns focused infants' attention on taxonomic relations. (MDM)
Descriptors: Classification, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Nouns, Psycholinguistics
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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