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Direct linkDewar, Kathryn; Xu, Fei – Developmental Psychology, 2007
In 3 experiments, 9-month-old infants' expectations for what distinct count noun labels refer to were investigated. In Experiment 1, a box was opened to reveal 2 objects inside during familiarization: either 2 identical objects or 2 different objects. Test trials followed the same procedure, except before the box was opened, the contents were…
Descriptors: Nouns, Infants, Expectation, Familiarity
Soja, Nancy N. – 1986
A study investigated children's difficulty in learning color words and attempted to determine whether the difficulty was perceptual, conceptual, or linguistic. The subjects were 24 two-year-olds, half with knowledge of color words and half without, and a similar control group. The experimental subjects were given conceptual and comprehension tasks…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Mapping, Color
