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Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R.; Booth, Amy E. – Cognitive Psychology, 2001
Investigated whether infants can construe the same set of objects as an object category or as embodying an object property. Results of 2 experiments involving 48 and 64 14-month-olds respectively suggest that infants have begun to distinguish nouns from adjectives, they expect different grammatical forms to highlight different aspects, and that…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Comprehension, Infants
