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Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra; Freedman, Jennifer – Cognition, 2003
Examined parental speech data demonstrating that linguistic input to children does not contain sufficient information to support unaided learning of the pronoun "one." Examined 18-month-olds' interpretation of sentences with a "one" substitution. Found that 18-month-olds have command of the syntax of "one." Because…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Experiments, Infants, Language Acquisition