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ERIC Number: EJ260193
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Feb
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Inferring What Words Mean: Early Development in Infants' Comprehension of Common Object Names.
Oviatt, Sharon L.
Child Development, v53 n1 p274-77 Feb 1982
Examines the development of infants' ability to begin recognizing novel referents of common object names. In particular, the present experiment investigated the development of 12- to 20-month-old infants' ability to infer that an unfamiliar but categorically related object can be designated by a newly learned name for the object class. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition, Photographs, Receptive Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inference Skills; Representational Modes