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Description:: Young children can sometimes acquire new vocabulary words—even property terms—through indirect learning (e.g. Carey & Bartlett, 1978). We explore two factors that contribute to this ability—perceptual alignment and linguistic contrast. We propose that spontaneous comparison processes lead children to notice key commonalities and differences that facilitate indirect property word learning....
Keyword:: property words, linguistic contrast, alignment, and indirect word learning
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, and Psychology
Creator:: Shao, Ruxue
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_668558 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14711

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