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The Development of Categories at the Semantics/Syntax Interface.
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Braine, Martin D. S.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
Examined thematic and grammatical role categories accessible to preschool children and how access to these categories changes with age. Results of three experiments with children and adults confirmed the psychological reality of certain semantic categories, and provided evidence suggesting a transition in the prominence of semantic relative to…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Early Childhood Education
Children's Initial Assumptions about the Meaning of Novel Motion Verbs: Biased and Conservative?
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Forbes, James N.; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – Cognitive Development, 1993
Study of 3 and 7 year olds and adults examined role that changes in continuity, direction, instrument, and causative agent play in children's and adults' initial assumptions about meaning of novel motion verbs and events. Subjects made similar initial assumptions, but children generalized more conservatively than adults to all change types in…
Descriptors: Adults, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Semantics