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Direct linkSamuelson, Larissa K. – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
Toddlers vary widely in the rate at which they develop vocabulary. This variation predicts later language development and school success at the group level; however, we cannot determine which children with slower vocabulary development in the second year will continue to have difficulty. In this article, I argue that this is because we lack…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Horst, Jessica S.; Ellis, Ann E.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Trejo, Erika; Worzalla, Samantha L.; Peltan, Jessica R.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Science, 2009
Two experiments demonstrate that 14- to 18-month-old toddlers can adaptively change how they categorize a set of objects within a single session, and that this ability is related to vocabulary size. In both experiments, toddlers were presented with a sequential touching task with objects that could be categorized either according to some…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Classification, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2005
Two experiments explore children's spontaneous labeling of novel objects as a method to study early lexical access. The experiments also provide new evidence on children's attention to object shape when labeling objects. In Experiment 1, the spontaneous productions of 21 23- to 28-month-olds (mean 26;28) shown a set of novel, unnamed objects were…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
