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Ferry, Alissa; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To learn a language infants must learn to link arbitrary sounds to their meaning. While words are the clearest example of this link, they are not the only component of language; morphological regularities (e.g., the plural -s suffix in English) carry meaning as well. Comprehensive theories of language acquisition must account for how infants build…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
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Bornstein, Marc H. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Infant Behavior
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Discrimination Learning
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Caron, Albert J.; Caron, Rose; Roberts, Jennifer; Brooks, Rechele – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Three experiments compared infants' reactions to videos of normally responsive women varying in eye contact. Found that, relative to frontal faces, three-month olds smiled less at images averting head and eye (H&I), head alone (H), and closing eyes (ECL) but not at averting eyes (E). Five-month-olds smiled less at H&I, E, and ECL but not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Stiles-Davis, Joan – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Three studies explore the development of discrimination and memory for symmetry in preschoolers four to six years of age. Issues addressed include the young child's ability to discriminate and reproduce symmetry, and the effects of pattern orientation and complexity on the young child's symmetry discrimination and reproduction. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children