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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Noyes, Caroline R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1996
Reviews book on the current state of psychological semantics for researchers in language development. Notes points of agreement among contributors, including: study of semantics has been too oriented toward substance nouns; assigning novel words to real objects or events is more difficult using verbs than nouns; and syntax is more integrally…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Nouns