Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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917306 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Existing shape bias research has determined that children generally extend object labels to novel instances on the basis of shape, and this typically occurs by around age 2.5. This research was conducted to further examine the nature of this bias during the second year of life, and determined that by using a more sensitive measure (novelty preference looking time) an emerging shape bias can be found as early as 14 months of age. In addition, demonstration of the shape bias in the current experiment appears to be unrelated to the 50 count noun marker.
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Authors
Julie M. Hupp,