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White, Anne; Malt, Barbara C.; Verheyen, Steven; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Although children may productively use concrete nouns after limited exposure, complete mastery of adult-like patterns of noun usage can take up to 14 years. We evaluated whether a transition from universal to language-specific naming is part of the refinement in later lexical development, and we compared how this refinement plays out in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, French, Indo European Languages
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Ameel, Eef; Malt, Barbara C.; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2014
Usage patterns for common nouns continue to change well past the early years of language acquisition in free naming (Andersen, 1975; Ameel, Malt, & Storms, 2008). The current research evaluates whether this continued evolution is shown in receptive judgments as well, given their differing cognitive demands. We found an extended learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Adolescents, Naming