International Journal of English Linguistics; Vol. 10, No. 5; 2020

Nominating the identical units of objective reality with the same word

.

 The observations reveal that, the first 

generalizations are carried out by children according to external, identical and visual features of objects. For 

example, every object with wheels is called 

a car

. This stage is characterized by differentiation, specification and 

corrections. A child determines the element of reality reflected by the word or lexical form that he/she 

comprehends through auditory contact. During the development of speech the processes of generalization obtain a 

more precise character based on word signals and are carried out according to significant features.   

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