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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

Creator:

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
Children Use Contrast, Multiple Familiarization Scenes, and Multiple Object Categories to Learn Verbs

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Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...

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cross-situational learning, contrast, verb learning, language acquisition, and early word learning

Subject:

Psychology

Creator:

Thomas B Piccin

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

05/25/2018

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05/25/2018

Date Created:

2007-05-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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