Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.

Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.

Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.

Child Development, v57 n4 p1040-53 Aug 1986

Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)

Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition, Object Permanence, Semantics, Verbal Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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