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Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language.
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Gopnik, 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
The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments.
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Gopnik, 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