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Cognitive Components of Naming in Children: Effects of Referential Uncertainty and Stimulus Realism.
Peer reviewedJohnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Picture naming in children was assessed as a function of two stimulus characteristics: the number of correct names for a picture and the degree to which a picture realistically represents the object. Two experiments showed that children named low-uncertainty objects faster than high-uncertainty objects with multiple correct names. Contains 50…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Foreign Countries
