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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
Tardif, Twila; So, Catherine Wing-Chee; Kaciroti, Niko – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Two studies were conducted with Cantonese-speaking preschoolers examining J. de Villiers's (1995) hypothesis that syntactic complements play a unique role in the acquisition of false belief (FB). In Study 1, the authors found a positive correlation between FB and syntactic complements in 72 four- to six-year-old Cantonese-speaking preschoolers.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Short Term Memory, Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages
