Learning to Make Definitions.

Litowitz, Bonnie

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Publication Date: 1977

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Learning to Make Definitions

Litowitz, Bonnie

Journal of Child Language, 4, 2, 289-304, Jun 77

The nature of the task of defining words by means of other words and the development of language responses (from children aged four to seven) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Definitions, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Vocabulary

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