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Direct linkHahn, Erin R.; Cantrell, Lisa – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Considerable research has demonstrated that English-speaking children extend nouns on the basis of shape. Here we asked whether the development of this bias is influenced by the structure of a child's primary language. We tested English- and Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 1 ; 10 and 3 ; 4 in a novel noun generalization task. Results…
Descriptors: Children, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking
