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Peer reviewedKarmiloff-Smith, Annette; And Others – Cognition, 1996
In three experiments, children listened to a story and were asked to repeat "the last word" or "the last thing" they heard. Found that children as young as 4.5 to 5 years treat both open and closed categories as words and clearly differentiate between words and things, contradicting the notion that children cannot focus on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Processing, Metalinguistics
