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| Adjectives | 1 |
| Context Effect | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Nouns | 1 |
| Toddlers | 1 |
| Toys | 1 |
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| Developmental Psychology | 1 |
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| Smith, Linda B. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSmith, Linda B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Examined linguistic and nonlinguistic context effects on the shape bias in three year olds' word learning. Results indicated that children systematically attended to shape in interpreting novel count nouns, but their interpretation of adjectives was contextually determined. (GLR)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Nouns
