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Gathercole, Virginia C. – 1979
Two children's spontaneous utterances containing the comparative structure are examined for their semantic content. Many comparatives are found to encode the notion "A has property X," and this use is often found in reference to the presence of X to an extreme, rather than a non-extreme, extent. The uses of the comparative are analyzed…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Error Analysis (Language)
