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Booth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Child Development, 2009
A precisely controlled automated procedure confirms a developmental decalage: Infants acquiring English link count nouns to object categories well before they link adjectives to properties. Fourteen- and 18-month-olds (n = 48 at each age) extended novel words presented as count nouns based on category membership rather than shared properties. When…
Descriptors: Nouns, Infants, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics
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Barner, David; Snedeker, Jesse – Child Development, 2008
Four experiments investigated 4-year-olds' understanding of adjective-noun compositionality and their sensitivity to statistics when interpreting scalar adjectives. In Experiments 1 and 2, children selected "tall" and "short" items from 9 novel objects called "pimwits" (1-9 in. in height) or from this array plus 4 taller or shorter distractor…
Descriptors: Young Children, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Statistics
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Francis, Hazel – Child Development, 1972
Research was designed to explore the basis of children's associations in matching and directed association tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students