Mapping Words to the World in Infancy: Infants' Expectations for Count Nouns and Adjectives
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Pii: S0010-0277(99)00017-7
Recent research has documented that for infants as young as 12–13 months of age, novel words (both count nouns and adjectives) highlight commonalities among objects and, in this way, foster the formation of object categories. The current experiment was designed to capture more precisely the scope of this phenomenon. We asked whether novel words (count nouns; adjectives) are linked specifically ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009