Evidence for Task-Dependent Categorization in Infancy

By Lisa M. Oakes, Jodie M. Plumert, Jeffrey M. Lansink, J. D. Merryman. 1996

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• One cow does not an animal make: young children can extend novel words at the superordinate level. (2001, background): “Alternatively, because young children are sensitive to task variables ( Oakes, Plumert, Lansink, & Merriman, 1996; Smith, Jones, & Landau, 1992), perhaps the fewer taxonomic selections in Experiment 2 were a result of the number of choices presented.”