{"id":8849,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proper_noun\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:11","slug":"proper_noun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proper_noun\/","title":{"rendered":"Proper noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A noun that refers to a unique individual, place or organization. &nbsp;During early childhood, children learn the meanings of proper and common nouns and the syntactical difference between them. &nbsp;There is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~pal\/pdfs\/pdfs\/katz74.pdf\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~pal\/pdfs\/pdfs\/katz74.pdf?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">longstanding evidence<\/a>&nbsp;that children first discriminate among individuals and learn how to name them, but for other classes of objects &nbsp;(e.g., toys) they first learn names only for a class. &nbsp;In doing so, they acquire the ability to distinguish between the two types of nouns. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"count_-or_countable-_noun\">Count (or countable) noun<\/a>, <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, Open-class words<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A noun that refers to a unique individual, place or organization. &nbsp;During early childhood, children learn the meanings of proper and common nouns and the syntactical difference between them. &nbsp;There is&nbsp;longstanding evidence&nbsp;that children first discriminate among individuals and learn how to name them, but for other classes of objects &nbsp;(e.g., toys) they first learn names &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proper_noun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proper noun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}