Gradability in Count Nouns: Categorizing and Counting Part and Whole Objects in Children and Adults
Some of the first words that children can comprehend and produce are nouns like ball and fork. Despite this apparent early command, children deviate from adult-like behavior when categorizing and quantifying objects falling under noun descriptions. Even beyond four years of age, when they are asked...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156840 |