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Direct linkGershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2004
This paper reports evidence from a longitudinal study in which children's attention to shape in a laboratory task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children were tested in the laboratory at 3-week intervals beginning when they had less than 25 nouns in their productive vocabulary (M age=17…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Geometric Concepts
