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Peer reviewedNamy, Laura L.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Child Development, 1998
Three experiments examined the relation between language acquisition and other symbolic abilities in 18- and 26-month-olds. Found that 18-month-olds spontaneously interpreted gestures, like words, as names for object categories. At 26 months, they spontaneously interpreted words as names and novel gestures as names only when given additional…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R. – Cognition, 1999
This study examined how novel words foster the formation of object categories for 12- to 13-month olds. Results indicated that by 12 to 13 months, infants have begun to distinguish between novel words presented as count nouns versus adjectives in fluent, infant-directed speech, and that infants' expectations for novel words accord with this…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
