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Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R.; Kosowski, Toby D. – Child Development, 1990
A series of experiments revealed that noun-category bias in children's word learning is present as early as two years of age. Findings indicate that, when children interpret the meaning of novel nouns, they do not sample randomly from the range of possible meanings but focus instead on category relations. (RH)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bias, Classification, Nouns
