Rigid thinking about deformables
Do children sometimes overgeneralize the shape bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larissa K Samuelson (0000-0002-9141-3286, University of Iowa, corresponding author), Jessica S Horst (0000-0003-3200-5239, University of Iowa, corresponding author), Anne R Schutte (0000-0001-7572-7309, University of Nebraska–Lincoln), BRANDI N DOBBERTIN (University of Iowa) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 559-589 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000908008672 |
| PMID | 18588715 |
| PMCID | PMC3303162 |
| OpenAlex | W2110683267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
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
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Noun · Salient · Categorization, perception, and language · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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One Word at a Time
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |