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Peer reviewedMerriman, William E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1993
Two experiments explored the tendency of preschoolers to map novel nouns and verbs onto unfamiliar rather than familiar objects or actions. This disambiguation effect has been interpreted as evidence that youngsters expect object or action labels to be mutually exclusive. The effect was stronger for object than for action words. (MDM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Mapping, Language Acquisition, Misconceptions
