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Mervis, Carolyn B.; Bertrand, Jacquelyn – Child Development, 1994
Examined the use by children of the Novel Name-Nameless Category principle, under the framework that lexical principles are acquired in a developmental sequence. Results indicated that the particular principle was not available at the start of lexical acquisition but that exhaustive categorization ability and a vocabulary spurt occur…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development