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Direct linkDiesendruck, Gil; Hall, D. Geoffrey; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2006
In Study 1, English-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds heard a novel adjective used to label one of two objects and were asked for the referent of a different novel adjective. Children were more likely to select the unlabeled object if the two adjectives appeared prenominally (e.g., "a very DAXY dog") than as predicates (e.g., "a dog that is very DAXY").…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Semitic Languages
