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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
