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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

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