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Direct linkSaylor, Megan M.; Carroll, C. Brooke – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The present study investigated three-year-olds' sensitivity to direct and indirect cues to others' knowledge states for word learning purposes. Children were given either direct, physical cues to knowledge or indirect, verbal cues to knowledge. Preschoolers revealed a better ability to learn words from a speaker following direct, physical cues to…
Descriptors: Cues, Verbal Development, Preschool Children, Knowledge Level
Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The paper examines the nominal lexicon in later language acquisition as a window on linguistic knowledge and usage across childhood and adolescence. The paper presents a psycholinguistically motivated and cognitively grounded analysis of the distribution of ten semantic noun categories (the Noun Scale) across development, modality, and genre.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Semantics, Nouns, Linguistics
