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Peer reviewedGelman, Susan A.; Croft, William; Fu, Panfang; Clausner, Timothy; Gottfried, Gail – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Examined how object shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge influenced children's overextensions (e.g., referring to pomegranates as apples). Researchers presented items that disentangled the three factors and used a novel comprehension task where children could indicate negative exemplars. Error patterns differed by task and by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Classification, Error Analysis (Language)
