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Peer reviewedKlibanoff, Raquel S.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Child Development, 2000
Examined preschoolers' ability to map novel adjectives to object properties in two experiments. Found that 4-year-olds could extend novel adjectives from target to matching test object whether objects were drawn from same, or different, basic level categories. If 3-year-olds' first extended a novel adjective to objects in the same basic level…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development
