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Hall, D. Geoffrey – 1990
Two studies addressed the relative strengths of object kind bias and syntactic knowledge in 2-year-olds' inductions of word meaning. The study looked at children's interpretations of novel proper names for familiar and unfamiliar objects. In each study, 10 children were assigned to each of 2 conditions (familiar and unfamiliar) and shown 2 cats…
Descriptors: Child Language, Induction, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewedHall, D. Geoffrey – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Fourteen mothers and their children participated in a storybook reading session in which the mothers taught their children both a basic-level count noun and a situation-restricted count noun for a series of object drawings. Analysis of mothers' spontaneous teaching strategies revealed that they typically taught a basic-level count noun before a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Mothers
