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Direct linkFisher, Anna V.; Matlen, Bryan J.; Godwin, Karrie E. – Cognition, 2011
Prior research suggests that preschoolers can generalize object properties based on category information conveyed by semantically-similar labels. However, previous research did not control for co-occurrence probability of labels in natural speech. The current studies re-assessed children's generalization with semantically-similar labels.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Generalization, Probability, Inferences
