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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
