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Peer reviewedImai, Mutsumi; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1994
A study with three- and five-year olds contrasted two important proposals regarding children's assumptions about word meanings: the taxonomic assumption proposal and the shape bias proposal. Results suggest that perceptual similarity, particularly shape similarity, is very important in early word meaning but that children gradually shift their…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
