Sizing Things Up: The Acquisition of the Meaning of Dimensional Adjectives.

Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe

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Sizing Things Up: The Acquisition of the Meaning of Dimensional Adjectives

Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe

Journal of Child Language, 3, 2, 205-219, Jun 76

Two tasks were used to test predictions of the Semantic Feature Hypothesis (SFH) about children's comprehension of the meaning of spatial adjectives. Predictions about acquisition order for dimensional features were supported; predictions about polarity were not. An acquisition hypothesis is offered that is contrary to the SFH. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Comprehension, Hypothesis Testing, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Space

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