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That bias is later acquired (Samuelson and Smith, 1999; Subrahmanyam et_al, 1999) and is less robust (Samuelson and Horst, 2007; Perry et_al, 2014) than the shape bias. By about 2 years of age, children acquire a bias to generalize the names of novel objects to other objects similar in shape (i.e., the "shape bias;" Landau et_al, 1988). Longitudinal training studies demonstrate that vocabulary plays a causal role in the development of the shape bias (Samuelson, 2002; Smith et_al, 2002; Perry et_al, 2010). Despite the apparent lack of robust knowledge of nonsolids and naming . . .
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