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Download full textAu, Terry Kit-fong – 1988
A study examined how preschool children use information about linguistic contrast in learning new words. The 72 subjects were assigned to four groups to play a game. They were asked to get an unfamiliar item, one of nine swatches of different colors, shapes, and materials. In the first group, the children were told only one label (color, shape, or…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
