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Peer reviewedShatz, Marilyn; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates the color term knowledge of two-year olds and the influence of schooling on their color term acquisition. Findings reveal considerable knowledge in these children. Conclusions are that contemporary children's early and frequent experience with color terms may account for this cohort's improved performance over previous generations of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Language, Color, Group Dynamics
The Effect of Perceptual Similarity and Linguistic Input on Children's Acquisition of Object Labels.
Peer reviewedDiesendruck, Gil; Shatz, Marilyn – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Investigated whether and when children establish various semantic relations between old and new words. Fifty 2-year olds were taught labels for objects previously referred to by an overextended term. Findings are discussed in light of theories of lexical development, particularly with regard to conceptualizations of constraints on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Perceptual Development
