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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

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