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Peer reviewedBird, J. Elizabeth; Bennett, Adrienne F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Children at four age levels (4,6,8, and 10 years) were given continuous recognition tasks using concrete noun, abstract noun, and pictorial stimuli in a 4 x 3 factorial design. Recognition for both concrete and abstract nouns was found to be linear and increasing significantly with age, but no age trends for picture recognition were found.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Nouns
Cognitive Components of Naming in Children: Effects of Referential Uncertainty and Stimulus Realism.
Peer reviewedJohnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Picture naming in children was assessed as a function of two stimulus characteristics: the number of correct names for a picture and the degree to which a picture realistically represents the object. Two experiments showed that children named low-uncertainty objects faster than high-uncertainty objects with multiple correct names. Contains 50…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Foreign Countries
