A lower boundary for category formation in preverbal infants
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Pre-linguistic category formation in infants
It is known that infants are aware of the category of objects in daily life before explicit vocabulary acquisition starts (Eimas and Quinn 1994). Infants are able to recognize the various types of "cars" in real life situations as well as in symbolic representations such as pictures, as belonging to a single category. Even though attributes such as color, texture, size are not the same for thes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s030500090001299x