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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
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Ross, Gail; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Reports a study which examines some of the properties of objects to determine whether the number of different examples of an object concept presented to infants influences concept learning and generalization and to discover whether children's behavior and language in relation to new objects influence learning the concept and generalization to new…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Generalization, Infants
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Graham, Susan A.; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Two experiments examined infants' reliance on object shape versus color for word generalization to animate and inanimate objects. Infants were taught labels for either novel vehicles or novel animals using preferential-looking procedure or an interactive procedure. Results of both experiments indicated that infants limited their word…
Descriptors: Animals, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Color