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Direct linkFisher, Anna V.; Godwin, Karrie E.; Matlen, Bryan J.; Unger, Layla – Child Development, 2015
Category-based induction is a hallmark of mature cognition; however, little is known about its origins. This study evaluated the hypothesis that category-based induction is related to semantic development. Computational studies suggest that early on there is little differentiation among concepts, but learning and development lead to increased…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGuiora, Alexander Z.; Sagi, Abraham – Language Learning, 1978
Reports on an experiment conducted on 23 Israeli kindergarteners and 16 Israeli college students, which used a variant of a semantic differential test in order to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, ascribe sexual meanings to words without regard to grammatical gender. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar
PDF pending restorationLivingston, Kenneth R. – 1979
A theoretical distinction is made between the growth of word meaning and the development of word sense in Vygotsky's terms. A recall from semantic memory task and the semantic differential were used to operationalize these two conceptions of meaning in a study of 72 children aged 5 to 10 years. Results replicated typical findings for the growth of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Language Acquisition
Scliar-Cabral, Leonor – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1977
This article discusses a chapter to be published on the state of psycholinguistics in Brazil. (CFM)
Descriptors: Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Theories
