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Direct linkGershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Connell, Brenda; Smith, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Overgeneralization occurs when a child uses the wrong word to name an object and is often observed in the early stages of word learning. We develop a method to elicit overgeneralizations in the laboratory by priming children to say the names of objects perceptually similar to known and unknown target objects. Experiment 1 examined 18 two-year-old…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Young Children
