Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Researchers have proposed that learning names of individual words and categories leads an individual child to develop a general word learning bias.However, evidence to date comes from studies of group means rather than individuals.The current study tests the prediction that the statistics of an individual child's vocabulary are closely related to that child's development of word learning biases.We demonstrate that individual differences in vocabulary structure predict individual differences in novel noun generalization.
Authors: Lynn K. Perry, Larissa K. Samuelson
Institution: University of Iowa
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Award: G9000163204
OpenAlex ID: W2286486392