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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
Denne, Joan M. – 1975
A class of preschoolers, aged 44-63 months and grouped according to age, sex, sibling position, family size and the occupation of each parent, were the subjects of a 2-part study to examine preschoolers' perceptions of mothers. In the first part of the study, each child was shown 4 sets of pictures depicting a variety of possible mother figures.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Language, Middle Aged Adults
