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Title: Rigid Thinking about Deformables: Do Children Sometimes Overgeneralize the Shape Bias?
Language: English
Authors: Samuelson, Larissa K., Horst, Jessica S., Schutte, Anne R.
Source: Journal of Child Language. Aug 2008 35(3):559-589.
Availability: Cambridge University Press. The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Tel: +44-1223-326070; Fax: 845-353-4141; Fax: +44-1223-325150; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: http://www.cambridge.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 31
Publication Date: 2008
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children, Child Language, Vocabulary, Language Acquisition, English, Nouns, Generalization, Task Analysis, Syntax
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008672
ISSN: 0305-0009
Abstract: Young children learning English are biased to attend to the shape of solid rigid objects when learning novel names. This study seeks further understanding of the processes that support this behavior by examining a previous finding that three-year-old children are also biased to generalize novel names for objects made from deformable materials by shape, even after the materials are made salient. In two experiments, we examined the noun generalizations of 72 two-, three- and four-year-old children with rigid and deformable stimuli. Data reveal that three-year-old, but not two- or four-year-old, children generalize names for deformable things by shape, and that this behavior is not due to the syntactic context of the task. We suggest this behavior is an overgeneralization of three-year-old children's knowledge of how rigid things are named and discuss the implications of this finding for a developmental account of the origins of the shape bias. (Contains 1 footnote.)
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