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Peer reviewedRavn, Karen E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1984
Examined five possible rules that children might use to interpret the terms "big" and "little." Increasing consistency in rule usage appeared to be the most significant developmental progression for children between the ages of three and five with respect to these terms. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Download full textGelman, Susan A.; And Others – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two experiments examining adults' use of dimensional adjectives focused specifically on the distinction made between height and overall size as determiners of "bigness." The subjects in both experiments were college students. In the first, the hypothesis that the meaning of "big" shifts as a function of the object being…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Age Differences, Area
