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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Kasai, Chise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Recent research shows that speakers of languages with obligatory plural marking (English) preferentially categorize objects based on common shape, whereas speakers of nonplural-marking classifier languages (Yucatec and Japanese) preferentially categorize objects based on common material. The current study extends that investigation to the domain…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Grammar
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Needham, Amy; Cantlon, Jessica F.; Ormsbee Holley, Susan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2006
The current research investigates infants' perception of a novel object from a category that is familiar to young infants: key rings. We ask whether experiences obtained outside the lab would allow young infants to parse the visible portions of a partly occluded key ring display into one single unit, presumably as a result of having categorized it…
Descriptors: Infants, Investigations, Visual Perception, Classification