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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 78, Issue 6, Pages 1818-1829Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01100.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R03 HD43941-01, R03 HD043941-02, R03 HD043941-01, R03 HD043941] Funding Source: Medline
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Eighteen-month-olds' spatial categorization was tested when hearing a novel spatial word. Infants formed an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., placing 1 object on another) when hearing a novel spatial particle during habituation but not when viewing the events in silence. Infants with a productive spatial vocabulary did not discriminate the support relation when hearing the same novel word as a count noun. However, infants who were not yet producing spatial words did attend to the support relation when presented with the novel count noun. The results indicate that 18-month-olds can use a novel particle (possibly assisted by a familiar verb) to facilitate their spatial categorization but that the specificity of this effect varies with infants' acquisition of spatial language.
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