Abstract
SALTZ, ELI; DIXON, DAVID; KLEIN, STEPHANIE; and BECKER, GLADYS. Studies of Natural Language Concepts. III. Concept Overdiscrimination in Comprehension between Two and Four Years of Age. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1977, 48, 1682-1685. Young children's comprehension of natural language concepts was examined by having 2and 4-year-olds select pictorial instances of 5 concrete semantic concepts. The results showed that the 2-year-olds were less likely than were the 4-year-olds to consider instances as exemplars of the concepts, especially if the instances were peripheral ones as regards the concepts (e.g., a lion for the concept cat). This tendency of greater overdiscrimination in comprehension by 2than by 4-year-olds supports Saltz's (1971) theory of the acquisition of natural language concepts which holds that such concepts are initially narrow ones which expand with increasing age.
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