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Publication Date: 1988
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Adjectives and Nouns: Children's Strategies for Learning New Words.
Taylor, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan A.
Child Development, v59 n2 p411-19 Apr 1988
Two strategies that children use to figure out new word meanings--attention to linguistic form class and the assumption of lexical contrast--were examined. It was found that very young children use both form class and lexical contrast to interpret new words. (PCB)
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