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Peer reviewedMerriman, William E.; Marazita, John M. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Three experiments examined disambiguation effect, the attachment of novel nouns to unfamiliar objects, and the effect of preexposure to similar sounding words in 2-year olds. Preexposure was found to alter subjects' disambiguation of novel nouns, attesting to the importance of phonological working memory in toddlers' decisions about the likely…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Nouns, Phonology, Toddlers
Peer reviewedJarvis, Lorna Hernandez; Merriman, William E.; Barnett, Michelle; Hanba, Jessica; Van Haitsma, Kylee S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
Children tend to choose an entity they cannot already label, rather than one they can, as the likely referent of a novel noun. The effect of input that contradicts this strategy on the interpretation of other novel nouns was investigated. In pre- and posttests, 4-year-olds were asked to judge whether novel nouns referred to "name-similar" familiar…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Semantics, Phonology, Novels
