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Direct linkGraham, Susan A.; Booth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Although there is considerable evidence that nouns highlight category-based commonalities, including both those that are perceptually available and those that reflect underlying conceptual similarity, some have claimed that words function merely as features of objects. Here, we directly test these alternative accounts. Four-year-olds (n = 140)…
Descriptors: Nouns, Preschool Children, Animals, Naming
Bartek, Brian; Lewis, Richard L.; Vasishth, Shravan; Smith, Mason R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Many comprehension theories assert that increasing the distance between elements participating in a linguistic relation (e.g., a verb and a noun phrase argument) increases the difficulty of establishing that relation during on-line comprehension. Such "locality effects" are expected to increase reading times and are thought to reveal properties…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Verbs, Eye Movements
