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Development of Abstract Grammatical Categorization in Infants
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Cyr, Marilyn; Shi, Rushen – Child Development, 2013
This study examined abstract syntactic categorization in infants, using the case of grammatical gender. Ninety-six French-learning 14-, 17-, 20-, and 30-month-olds completed the study. In a preferential looking procedure infants were tested on their generalized knowledge of grammatical gender involving pseudonouns and gender-marking determiners.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Infants, Grammar