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Snedeker, Jesse; Geren, Joy; Shafto, Carissa L. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants, these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive maturation and development. To disentangle these factors, we compared the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Nouns, Linguistics, Infants
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Marentette, Paula; Nicoladis, Elena – Cognition, 2011
This study explores a common assumption made in the cognitive development literature that children will treat gestures as labels for objects. Without doubt, researchers in these experiments intend to use gestures symbolically as labels. The present studies examine whether children interpret these gestures as labels. In Study 1 two-, three-, and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes