A COGNITIVE/FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ACQUISITION OF "CLASSIFIERS"

By D. Slobin, N. Hoiting, Marlon Kuntze, Reyna Lindert, Amy Weinberg, Jennie E. Pyers, Michelle Anthony, Y. Biederman, Helen Thumann. 2003

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The Form of Children's Early Signs: Iconic or Motoric Determinants? (2008, background): “Slobin et al. (2003) have argued that there are effects of iconicity on children's acquisition of ASL's so-called classifier constructions.”
Rethinking constructed action (2015, background): “It has been argued that even by age 12, children still struggle with various discourse and pragmatic functions of CA (Slobin et al. 2003).”
Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages (2010, background): “Slobin et al. (2003), examined the productions of deaf children with deaf parents and found that iconicity promotes the early (before age 3) emergence of meaningful handshape distinctions, such as those found in handling classifiers (i.e., classifiers that depict an agent holding an object).”