Decrements in Children's Responses to Big and Tall: A Reconsideration of the Potential Cognitive and Semantic Causes
The potential causes of decrements in children's understanding of big and tall (Maratsos, 1973, 1974) are reconsidered. Five hypotheses are examined in detail. Two of them, the strong cognitive hypothesis and the strong semantic hypothesis, offer the most viable explanations for the decrements,...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1980-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/546 |