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Peer reviewedEvey, Julie A.; Merriman, William E. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
While children aged 1;10 and 2;1 show only a modest rate of mapping novel nouns onto unfamiliar rather than familiar objects, children aged 1;4 and 1;8 show a high rate. Two studies with young 2-year olds found the noun-mapping preference prevalent, but unless initial choices are strongly reinforced, increase in salience of familiar kinds lures…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Mapping, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
