A Bidirectional Relationship between Conceptual Organization and Word Learning

Table 1

Correlations between variables.

	Gains in target word knowledge	Taxonomic sorting behavior	Gains in expansion word knowledge	Baseline taxonomic category knowledge	PPVT-III
Gains in target word knowledge	—
Taxonomic categorization behavior	.21*	—
Gains in expansion word knowledge	.12	.20*	—
Baseline taxonomic category knowledge	.09	−.04	.07	—
PPVT-III	−.16	−.17	−.04	.28*	—

^∗𝑃<.05.