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- Title
Shape and the first hundred nouns.
- Authors
Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Smith, Linda B.
- Abstract
This paper reports evidence from a longitudinal study in which children's attention to shape in a laboratory task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children were tested in the laboratory at 3-week intervals beginning when they had less than 25 nouns in their productive vocabulary (M age=17 months). Children were presented with a novel word generalization task at each session. Additionally, the study examined the kinds of words the children learned early, based on parent reports, and the statistical regularities inherent in those vocabularies. The results indicate that as children learned nouns, they also learned to attend to shape in the novel word task. At the same time, children showed an acceleration in new noun production outside of the laboratory.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE acquisition; CHILDREN'S language; LANGUAGE awareness in children; VERBAL ability in children; DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; ATTENTION; CHILD development; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; SENSORY perception; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; VOCABULARY; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Child Development, 2004, Vol 75, Issue 4, p1098
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00728.x