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Peer reviewedGopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 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
Peer reviewedGopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew – Child Development, 1987
Changes in children's categorization behavior between 15 and 21 months of age and the relation of these changes to developments in language, object permanence, and means-end understanding are reported. (PCB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classification, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedGopnik, Alison; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1996
Studied semantic and cognitive development of Korean-speaking and English-speaking children. Found that categorization and a naming spurt emerged later in Korean speakers than in English speakers, while means-ends abilities and success/failure words emerged earlier in Korean speakers than in English speakers. Also, Korean-speaking mothers…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
