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Rebecca Zhu; Alison Gopnik – Child Development, 2024
Three preregistered experiments, conducted in 2021, investigated whether English-speaking American preschoolers (N = 120; 4-6 years; 54 females, predominantly White) and adults (N = 80; 18-52 years; 59 females, predominantly Asian) metonymically extend owners' names to owned objects--an extension not typically found in English. In Experiment 1, 5-…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, English, Young Children
Jose Pérez-Navarro; Marie Lallier – Child Development, 2025
This study examined the influence of linguistic input on the development of productive and receptive skills across three fundamental language domains: lexico-semantics, syntax, and phonology. Seventy-one (35 female) Basque-Spanish bilingual children were assessed at three time points (Fall 2018, Summer 2019, Winter 2021), between 4 and 6 years of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students
Amanda Saksida; Alan Langus – Child Development, 2024
The account that word learning starts in earnest during the second year of life, when infants have mastered the disambiguation skills, has recently been challenged by evidence that infants during the first year already know many common words. The preliminary ability to rapidly map and disambiguate linguistic labels was tested in Italian-speaking…
Descriptors: Naming, Infants, Cognitive Mapping, Vocabulary Development