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Direct linkDiesendruck, Gil – Developmental Psychology, 2005
In Study 1, 4-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when exposed to a common or a proper noun in a puppet's presence or to a common noun in a puppet's absence, but not when exposed to a proper noun in a puppet's absence. In Study 2, 3-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when the requester for the referent of a second label in a different…
Descriptors: Puppetry, Nouns, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedGolinkoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
In three experiments, adults and 30-month-old children (1) selected a novel object as the referent for a novel term; (2) extended the new word to another exemplar; and (3) allowed the new word to preempt another novel label from applying to the just-named object. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Comparative Analysis
