Table 1.
Children’s novel object selection in the trials of each level of word knowledge per age group.
| 2-year-olds |
3-year-olds |
4-year-olds |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel object selection (total)∗ | % | Novel object selection (total)∗ | % | Novel object selection (total)∗ | % | |
| Comprehension only | 33 (65) | 50.77 | 17 (34) | 50.00 | 19 (46) | 41.30 |
| Labeled upon request | 31 (44) | 70.45 | 13 (22) | 59.09 | 17 (19) | 89.47 |
| Spontaneously labeled | 85 (106) | 80.19 | 122 (154) | 79.22 | 122 (130) | 93.84 |
∗Raw number of trials in which the children chose the novel object. The number in brackets is the total number of trials per age group and level of word knowledge.