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Title: Studies of Natural Language Concepts. III. Concept Overdiscrimination in Comprehension between Two and Four Years of Age.
Authors: Saltz, Eli, Dixon, David, Klein, Stephanie, Becker, Gladys
Source: Child Development. Dec1977, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p1682-1685. 4p.
Subjects: Comprehension (Theory of knowledge), Child development, Apperception, Children's language, Child psychology, Developmental psychology
Abstract: Young children's comprehension of natural language concepts was examined by having 2- and 4-year-olds select pictorial instances of 5 concrete semantic concepts. The results showed that the 2-year-olds were less likely than were the 4-year-olds to consider instances as exemplars of the concepts, especially if the instances were "peripheral" ones as regards the concepts (e.g., a lion {or the concept cat). This tendency Of greater over discrimination in comprehension by 2- than by 4-year-olds supports Saltz's (1971) theory of the acquisition of natural language concepts which holds that such concepts are initially narrow ones which expand with increasing age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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