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ERIC Number: EJ305772
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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How Two-Year-Old Children Interpret Proper and Common Names for Unfamiliar Objects.
Gelman, Susan A.; Taylor, Marjorie
Child Development, v55 n4 p1535-40 Aug 1984
Investigates the ability of 32 two-year-old children to use syntactic (i.e., form class) and semantic (i.e., type of referent) information to interpret the meaning of new nouns. Subjects were taught either a common noun or a proper noun for a block-like or animal-like object and then asked to select the named toy. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Nouns, Pragmatics, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Referents (Linguistics); Semantic Categories