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Direct linkCimpian, Andrei; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
There is debate about whether preschool-age children interpret words as referring to kinds or to classes defined by shape similarity. The authors argue that the shape bias reported in previous studies is a task-induced artifact rather than a genuine word-learning strategy. In particular, children were forced to extend an object's novel label to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Associative Learning, Word Recognition, Learning Strategies
