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Peer reviewedHall, D. Geoffrey – Child Development, 1994
Four experiments examined three- and four-year olds' interpretations of novel words applied to familiar objects in the sentence frame "This Y is X," where X is a novel word and Y is a familiar count noun. Results indicated that preschoolers understood that the novel words were either proper names or adjectives/mass nouns. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Childhood Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
