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Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1992
Eighteen-month-old children performed sorting tasks and their parents completed checklists of words used by the children. Children who performed exhaustive grouping, or grouping of objects of different kinds in different locations, were reported as using more words than children who did not perform exhaustive grouping. (BC)
Descriptors: Classification, Infants, Language Acquisition, Object Permanence
Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages