Beyond early linguistic competence : development of children's ability to interpret adjectives flexibly
We investigated the circumstances in which 3- to 5-year-old children can and cannot interpret adjectives flexibly. In Experiment 1, children were required to interpret big and little both in reference to a basic level kind (e.g., “This is a big marble”) and in reference to a superordinate kind (e.g....
Main Authors: | Gao, Helena Hong, Zelazo, Philip David, Sharpe, Dean, Mashari, Azad |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99439 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24051 |
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