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Learning about the Structure of Scales: Adverbial Modification and the Acquisition of the Semantics of Gradable Adjectives

Description:

This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives (GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about abstract differences within this category. I first demonstrate that children as young as age three distinguish between relative (e.g., 'big', 'long'), maximum standard absolute (e.g.,...

Keyword:

semantics, word learning, comparison, language acquisition, adjectives, and adverbs

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Kristen L Syrett

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/14/2018

Date Modified:

08/14/2018

Date Created:

2007-08-22

Resource Type:

Dissertation