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Keil, Frank C.; Batterman, Nancy – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
In a study using preschool and elementary school children, the children's judgments of whether brief stories described valid instances of a concept shifted in a manner consistent with the authors' hypothesis that meanings typically develop from representations in which characteristic features predominate to those in which defining features become…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Etymology, Language Acquisition
