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Haryu, Etsuko; Imai, Mutsumi – Child Development, 2002
Three studies investigated how 3-year-old Japanese children interpret the meaning of a new word associated with a familiar artifact. Findings suggest that children flexibly recruit clues from multiple sources, including shape information and function familiarity, but the clues are weighed in hierarchical order so children can determine the single…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Acquisition