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Peer reviewedBirch, Susan A. J.; Bloom, Paul – Child Development, 2002
Two experiments examined young children's use of the familiarity principle when learning language. Found that even 2-year-olds successfully identified the referent of a proper name as the individual with whom the speaker was familiar. However, only 5-year-olds reliably succeeded at determining the individual with whom the speaker was familiar…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Knowledge Level, Language Acquisition
