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Marchak, Kristan A.; Hall, D. Geoffrey – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This research addressed the question of whether children understand proper names differently from descriptions. We examined how children extend these two types of expressions from an initial object (a truck) owned by the experimenter to two identical objects created by transforming the initial object, both owned by the experimenter. Adults and…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Naming, Language Acquisition