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Direct linkFerguson, Brock; Waxman, Sandra – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Language exerts a powerful influence on our concepts. We review evidence documenting the developmental origins of a precocious link between language and object categories in very young infants. This collection of studies documents a cascading process in which early links between language and cognition provide the foundation for later, more precise…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Concept Formation, Classification, Infants
