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Peer reviewedEbeling, Karen S.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1994
Three experiments examined how flexibly two- to four-year-old children use the words "big" and "little" in normative, perceptual, and functional contexts. Results showed that children switched easily from a normative context but made errors when asked to switch to a normative context. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Classification, Context Effect
