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shape bias: a standalone construct

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Child language development

children's tendency to extend a new object name to other objects of the same shape rather than size or texture.

In child language development, shape bias refers to children's tendency to extend a new object name to other objects of the same shape rather than size or texture. This meaning comes from Landau (1988) in Cognitive Development.[1]

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References

Landau, B., Smith, L. B., & Jones, S. S. (1988). The importance of shape in early lexical learning. Cognitive Development, 3(3), 299-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/0885-2014(88)90014-7

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