Words from different grammatical categories (eg, nouns and adjectives) highlight different
aspects of the same objects (eg, object categories and object properties). Two experiments
examine the acquisition of this phenomenon in 14-month-olds, asking whether infants can
construe the very same set of objects (eg, four purple animals) either as members of an
object category (eg, animals) or as embodying a salient object property (eg, four purple
things) and whether naming (with either count nouns or adjectives) influences infants' …