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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEARNING AND SEMANTIC AND FORMAL SIMILARITY.

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BOHM, AUDREY M. – 1966

AN EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT, WITH MATERIAL OF HIGH MEANINGFULNESS, THE SEMANTIC DIMENSION OF SYNONYMITY (BATTLE-FIGHT) WILL HAVE GREATER IMPACT ON THE LEARNING PROCESS THAN THE DIMENSION OF FORMAL SIMILARITY (BATTLE-BOTTLE). THE LEARNING MATERIALS CONSISTED OF FOUR LISTS OF 12 PAIRS OF TWO-SYLLABLE WORDS. THEY WERE…

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Learning Theories

Overextensions in Comprehension and Production Revisited: Preferential-Looking in a Study of "Dog,""Cat," and "Cow."

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Naigles, Letitia G.; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995

Investigated overextensions in comprehension and production, using the preferential-looking model, in 99 children (ages 1;9 to 2;3) who were asked to find the referent that matched the label they were given in real and anomalous trials. Results confirm that overextensions in production are not diagnostic of children's underlying semantic…

Descriptors: Generalization, Language Research, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory