Hall, D. GeoffreyCorrigall, KathleenRhemtulla, MijkeDonegan, EleanroXu, Fei2017-05-042022-05-282022-05-282008Hall, D. G., Corrigall, K., Rhemtulla, M., Donegan, E., & Xu, F. (2008). Infants' use of lexical-category-to-meaning links in object individuation. Child Development, 39, 1432-1443. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01197.xhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/841Infants watched an experimenter retrieve a stuffed animal from an opaque box and then return it. This happened twice, consistent with either 1 animal appearing on 2 occasions or 2 identical-looking animals each appearing once. The experimenter labeled each object appearance with a different novel label. After infants retrieved 1 object from the box, their subsequent search behavior was recorded. Twenty-month-olds, but not 16-month-olds, searched significantly longer for a second object inside the box when the labels were both proper names than when they were 1 count noun followed by 1 proper name. The effect was not significant when proper names were replaced by adjectives. Twenty-month-olds' understanding of meaning distinctions among several word categories guided their object individuation.enAll Rights Reservedinfant developmentlexical accesscognition in infantsArticlehttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01197.x