A Cross-Cultural Study of Symbolic Meaning-Developmental Aspects.

Guiora, Alexander Z.; Sagi, Abraham

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Symbolic Meaning-Developmental Aspects.

Guiora, Alexander Z.; Sagi, Abraham

Language Learning, v28 n2 p381-86 Dec 1978

Reports on an experiment conducted on 23 Israeli kindergarteners and 16 Israeli college students, which used a variant of a semantic differential test in order to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, ascribe sexual meanings to words without regard to grammatical gender. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar, Hebrew, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Semantic Differential, Semantics

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