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Direct linkSamuelson, Larissa K.; Horst, Jessica S.; Schutte, Anne R.; Dobbertin, Brandi N. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
Young children learning English are biased to attend to the shape of solid rigid objects when learning novel names. This study seeks further understanding of the processes that support this behavior by examining a previous finding that three-year-old children are also biased to generalize novel names for objects made from deformable materials by…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children, Child Language, Vocabulary
Peer reviewedSamuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 1999
Two experiments examined toddlers' noun vocabularies and interpretations of names for solid and non-solid items. Results indicated that one side of the solidity-syntax-category organization mapping was favored. Seventeen- to 33-month olds do not systematically generalize names for solid things by shape similarity until they already know many…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Classification
