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Direct linkBooth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R.; Huang, Yi Ting – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Three experiments document that conceptual knowledge influences lexical acquisition in infancy. A novel target object was initially labeled with a novel word. In both yes-no (Experiment 1) and forced-choice (Experiment 2) tasks, 2-year-olds' subsequent extensions were mediated by the conceptual description of the targets. When targets were…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
