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Download full textCarni, Ellen; French, Lucia – 1982
The "contextual hypothesis" of French and Brown (1977) concerning children's acquisition of temporal terms was tested. French and Brown claimed that it would be impossible for children to learn the meaning of temporal terms except by hearing them used in contexts where they referred to already known sequences, and further proposed that the terms…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Effect
Naigles, Letitia; And Others – 1987
Two studies investigated whether young children acquiring verbs at an exceptional rate can use the syntactic structure of familiar and unfamiliar verbs to make conjectures about some aspect of the meanings of those verbs. The preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek, 1981) was used to set up a naturalistic pairing of scene and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Hypothesis Testing
