Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ644230
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Seeing Pink Elephants: Fourteen-Month-Olds' Interpretations of Novel Nouns and Adjectives.
Waxman, Sandra R.; Booth, Amy E.
Cognitive Psychology, v43 n3 p217-42 Nov 2001
Investigated whether infants can construe the same set of objects as an object category or as embodying an object property. Results of 2 experiments involving 48 and 64 14-month-olds respectively suggest that infants have begun to distinguish nouns from adjectives, they expect different grammatical forms to highlight different aspects, and that they use these expectations when extending novel words. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Comprehension, Infants, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Research supported by National Institutes of Health Grant 28730. Portions of the research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Albuquerque, NM, April 1999) and the Boston University Conference on Language Development (Boston, MA, November 1999).
