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Direct linkMarkson, Lori; Diesendruck, Gil; Bloom, Paul – Developmental Science, 2008
When children learn the name of a novel object, they tend to extend that name to other objects similar in shape--a phenomenon referred to as the shape bias. Does the shape bias stem from learned associations between names and categories of objects, or does it derive from more general properties of children's understanding of language and the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Bias, Geometric Concepts
