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ERIC Number: EJ453405
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language.
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.
Child Development, v63 n5 p1091-1103 Oct 1992
Eighteen-month-old children performed sorting tasks and their parents completed checklists of words used by the children. Children who performed exhaustive grouping, or grouping of objects of different kinds in different locations, were reported as using more words than children who did not perform exhaustive grouping. (BC)
Descriptors: Classification, Infants, Language Acquisition, Object Permanence, Vocabulary Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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