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Peer reviewedAu, Terry Kit-fong; Glusman, Mariana – Child Development, 1990
Examined the possibility that knowledge about hierarchical organization of categories and cross-language equivalents for object labels can help children limit use of the assumption that nouns pick out mutually exclusive object categories. Findings suggest that even preschoolers use knowledge about language and categorization to fine tune the…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Classification, Generalization
Peer reviewedGathercole, Virginia C. Mueller – Child Development, 1997
Examined acquisition of the mass/count distinction in English. Results indicated that at 7 years bilinguals did not infer from the linguistic context whether new nouns referred to objects or a substance. By 9 years, bilinguals who were strong in English responded similarly to monolingual peers, but bilinguals with lower English abilities still…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Children, Classification
