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  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA fei_xu@berkeley.eduhttps://www.babylab.berkeley.edu/feixu.

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Infants develop an understanding of object categories before language acquisition. This suggests that language learning may influence how infants acquire these fundamental concepts, challenging prior theories.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Object individuation is crucial for understanding the world.
  • Theories debate whether infants possess prelinguistic conceptual structures.
  • Sortal kinds (e.g., object, agent) are fundamental categories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if infants possess prelinguistic conceptual understanding of sortal kinds.
  • To examine the role of language acquisition in the development of sortal-kind representation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of infant object individuation capabilities.
  • Assessment of infant representation of object, agent, animate, and artifact categories by 12 months.

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