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....

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Main Authors: Gao, Helena Hong, Zelazo, Philip David, Sharpe, Dean, Mashari, Azad
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99439
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24051
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English

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