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Hendriks, Henriëtte; Hickmann, Maya; Pastorino-Campos, Carla – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Much research has focused on the expression of voluntary motion (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The present study contributes to this body of research by comparing how children (three to ten years) and adults narrated short, animated cartoons in English and German (SATELLITE-FRAMED languages) vs. French (VERB-FRAMED). The cartoons showed agents…
Descriptors: Motion, Preschool Children, Children, Cartoons
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Storkel, Holly L. – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Previous evidence suggests that the structure of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon may differ from that of the fully developed lexicon. The similarity relationships used to organize words into neighbourhoods was investigated in 20 pre-school children (age 3;7 to 5;11) using a two alternative forced-choice classification…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Preschool Children