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Direct linkSabbagh, Mark A.; Wdowiak, Sylwia D.; Ottaway, Jennifer M. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Thirty-six three- to four-year-old children were tested to assess whether hearing a word-referent link from an ignorant speaker affected children's abilities to subsequently link the same word with an alternative referent offered by another speaker. In the principal experimental conditions, children first heard either an ignorant or a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Language Processing
