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Peer reviewedLitowitz, Bonnie E.; Novy, Forrest A. – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Investigates expression of part-whole semantic relation by children 3 to 12 years old and indicates that older children prefer its use significantly more often. The part-whole semantic relation was also observed to take several linguistic forms, such as partitive, spatial, and possessive. Age, experimental task format, or type of experimental…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
Geer, Sandra E.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Research supported by a Public Health Service Research grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory
Download full textNagy, William; Gentner, Dedre – 1987
A study focused on the nature and effect of constraints on the hypotheses that learners make about the meanings of words. Two experiments were conducted at a large midwestern university: the first, involving 68 undergraduate students divided randomly into two groups, tested taxonomic and durative constraints on nouns, and time of day and cessation…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Definitions, Higher Education
