@article{Pérez-Paz_Arias-Trejo_Alva_2016, title={Importance of language and number of objects in plural distinction during infancy}, volume={32}, url={https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/analesps.32.3.225521}, DOI={10.6018/analesps.32.3.225521}, abstractNote={<p>The linguistic distinction of plurals in early developmental stages is dependent on the verbal cues provided and on the number of members in a set. More than two objects in a set facilitate plural production. Also, multiple verbal cues help understand plurals in contrast to single verbal cues such as the noun morphology alone. It remains unknown whether in a comprehension task a set with only 2 objects is associated to a plural frame, and whether the verbal cues provided play a fundamental role on the aforesaid association.</p> <p>Two preferential looking experiments were carried out with 24-month-old toddlers. Their ability to associate multiple plural verbal cues (E1) and morphology noun alone to a set of 2 objects (E2) was evaluated.</p> <p>Toddlers associated a set of 2 objects to verbal frames containing multiple cues of plurality, but not to the noun morphology alone. These findings show that, as in production, there is a certain difficulty in linguistically distinguishing a set with few objects as a representation of plural during early childhood. Nonetheless, this difficulty is diminished when multiple verbal cues are provided. This demonstrates toddlers’ ability to retrieve information from enriched syntactical frames.&nbsp;</p&gt;}, number={3}, journal={Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology}, author={Pérez-Paz, Verónica Isabel and Arias-Trejo, Natalia and Alva, Elda Alicia}, year={2016}, month={Jul.}, pages={863-870} }