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

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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.,...

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

Subject:

Linguistics

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Kristen L Syrett

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/14/2018

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08/14/2018

Date Created:

2007-08-22

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Dissertation
Linguistic and Cognitive Mechanisms in Foreign Vocabulary Acquisition

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The general goal of this dissertation research was to examine linguistic and cognitive mechanisms in foreign vocabulary learning within theoretical frameworks of working memory and connectionist word processing models. In Study 1, the effect of bimodal (auditory-and-visual) vs. unimodal (auditory-only) presentation on foreign word learning was examined at different levels...

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working memory, bilingualism, word learning, connectionism, phonology, and bilingual advantage

Subject:

Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology

Creator:

Margarita Kaushanskaya

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

06/27/2018

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06/27/2018

Date Created:

2007-05-11

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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