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Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development
