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Appreciating Language Conventions: Thirteen-Month-Old Chinese Infants Understand That Word Generalization Is Shared Practice
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Liu, Siying; Sun, Renji – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Language is conventional because word meanings are shared among different people. The present study examined Chinese infants' understanding of the language convention that different people should generalize words in the same way. Thirteen-month-old Mandarin-speaking Chinese infants repeatedly viewed a speaker providing a novel label for a target…
Descriptors: Infants, Mandarin Chinese, Generalization, Language Usage