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Dunckley, Candida J. Lutes; Radtke, Robert C. – 1977
Two semantic theories of word learning, a perceptual complexity hypothesis (H. Clark, 1970) and a quantitative complexity hypothesis (E. Clark, 1972) were tested by teaching 24 preschoolers and 16 college students CVC labels for five polar spatial adjective concepts having single word representations in English, and for three having no direct…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
