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Pomper, Ron; Kaushanskaya, Margarita; Saffran, Jenny – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Language comprehension involves cognitive abilities that are specific to language as well as cognitive abilities that are more general and involved in a wide range of behaviors. One set of domain-general abilities that support language comprehension are executive functions (EFs), also known as cognitive control. A diverse body of research has…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Processing, Preschool Children, Pictorial Stimuli
An Object Lesson: Objects, Non-Objects, and the Power of Conceptual Construal in Adjective Extension
LaTourrette, Alexander; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Despite the seemingly simple mapping between adjectives and perceptual properties (e.g., color, texture), preschool children have difficulty establishing the appropriate extension of novel adjectives. When children hear a novel adjective applied to an individual object, they successfully extend the adjective to other members of the same object…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Difficulty Level, Concept Formation, Pictorial Stimuli
Wagner, Katie; Jergens, Jill; Barner, David – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Previous studies report that children use color words haphazardly before acquiring conventional, adult-like meanings. The most common explanation for this is that children do not abstract color as a domain of linguistic meaning until several months after they begin producing color words, resulting in a stage during which they produce but do not…
Descriptors: Color, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Semantics