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Peer reviewedGopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Download full textGrace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
